Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276 EAN: 9780596000950 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596000952 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 260 Publication Date: December 15, 2001 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 209276 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThe 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Complete rubbish
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.
Rating: - Nice introduction
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.
Rating: - Nice introduction
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.
Rating: - Disappointing and thin
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 ... Read More
Rating: - No Nonsense Broad Introduction
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).
- Complete rubbish
- Nice introduction
