| Overview
The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and
implement application-to-application integration and
interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant.
Two applications, regardless of operating system, programming
language, or any other technical implementation detail, communicate
using XML messages over open Internet protocols such as HTTP or
SMTP. The Simple Open Access Protocol (SOAP) is a specification
that details how to encode that information and has become the
messaging protocol of choice for Web services. Programming Web
Services with SOAP is a detailed guide to using SOAP and other
leading web services standards--WSDL (Web Service Description
Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and
Integration protocol). You'll learn the concepts of the web
services architecture and get practical advice on building and
deploying web services in the enterprise. This authoritative book
decodes the standards, explaining the concepts and implementation
in a clear, concise style. You'll also learn about the major
toolkits for building and deploying web services. Examples in Java,
Perl, C#, and Visual Basic illustrate the principles. Significant
applications developed using Java and Perl on the Apache Tomcat web
platform address real issues such as security, debugging, and
interoperability. Covered topic areas include:
The Web Services Architecture SOAP envelopes, headers, and encodings WSDL and UDDI Writing web services with Apache SOAP and Java Writing web services with Perl's SOAP::Lite Peer-to-peer (P2P) web services Enterprise issues such as authentication, security,
and identity Up-and-coming standards projects for web
services
Programming Web Services with SOAP provides you with all the
information on the standards, protocols, and toolkits you'll need
to integrate information services with SOAP. You'll find a solid
core of information that will help you develop individual Web
services or discover new ways to integrate core business processes
across an enterprise.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionThe web services architecture provides a new standard for building distributed Web-based applications across a network. Programming Web Services with SOAP is a detailed guide to using the leading web services standards, including SOAP (Simple Open Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Service Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration protocol). You'll learn the concepts of the web services architecture and get practical acvice on building and deploying web services in the enterprise. This authoritative book decodes the standards, explaining the concepts and implementation in a clear, concise style. You'll also learn about the major toolkits for building and deploying web services. Examples in Java, Perl, C#, and Visual Basic illustrate the principles. Significant applications developed using Java and Perl on the Apache Tomcat web platform address real issues such as security, debugging, and interoperability. Programming Web Services with SOAP provides you with all the information on the standards, protocols, and toolkits you'll need to integrate information services with SOAP. You'll find a solid core of information that will help you develop individual Web services or discover new ways to integrate core business processes across an enterprise. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 14 reviews. Complete rubbish, 2003-06-20 Reviewer rating: I was so keen to learn from this book, but no matter how hard I tried it had too much nonsense to be readable or usable. | Nice introduction, 2002-12-06 Reviewer rating: If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need. If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want. If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need. | Nice introduction, 2002-12-05 Reviewer rating: If your pretty new at SOAP, and if you need an overview, then this is the book you want. If you don't care about interoperability, and you just want a book on SOAP within a particular environment (say Java), then this is not the book you want. If you need a reference guide, then you don't need this book. | Disappointing and thin, 2002-08-16 Reviewer rating: This book was a disappointment. I got thrown into an XML/SOAP project and had to get up to speed in short order. After struggling on my own for a while I bought this book hoping it would have lots of meat on actually using SOAP::Lite, but it had pretty thin coverage. I did like the big-picture overview of the various technologies, but it was not very helpful in writing an actual SOAP client to talk to a third party's SOAP server. Considering that the author of SOAP::Lite also wrote this book, it seems to me that there could have been a whole chapter on SOAP::Lite from the client view. This will stay on my shelf as a reference, but for getting up to speed rapidly on actually writing a SOAP client, it was a bust. | No Nonsense Broad Introduction, 2002-08-05 Reviewer rating: This book is a nice introduction to SOAP. It doesn't get caught in the Software wars and has examples of most existing systems. Another advantage: it is a thin book and not a 1000 pages bible. So you can easily read it in a weekend and then decide where you want to dig deeper (if necessary). |
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