Product DescriptionWeb Services is a new paradigm that has evolved over the years. With successful demonstration of its proof of concept, Web Services are gradually moving towards occupying an important mechanism for e-commerce, because of the industry's awareness of its potential for integration. This book presents secure web services for e-commerce along with their implementation details. Security is a not only a prime requirement to implement e-business, but also an important concern due to the fact that Web Services can penetrate through firewalls. XML based standards have evolved to cater to the security needs in Web Services, to supplement traditional proven techniques.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Not a practical book for building XML security.
I bought this out of curiosity especially to build XML element level security using SAML, XKMS and XACML. - This book just reproduced the SAML, XKMS and XACML specs and examples and it does'nt discuss real world implementation scenarios. Which is quite disappointing ! - No discussion on how to create Interoperable Web services security involving Microsoft .NET and J2EE Web services. - No discussion on implementing Liberty Alliance and Passport.
Rating: - At last a decent Web Services Security Book
At last I have found a decent web services security book. Professional Web Services Security by Wrox. I really like this book as it covers all the specs including WS-Security, SAML and Liberty and all the XML specs including XKMS, XACML, XML Sig, XML Encryption etc. It also has great code examples of using each which is really useful. The best content and broadest coverage I have seen so far (and I have bought a good few to date).
Only criticism is no .NET passport. If you like MS or not ... Read More
Rating: - Finally a book that covers Web Services Security!
If you look at all the currently available books on Web Services with titles like Essential Web Services, Web Services Architecture or Building Web Services, all of them have absolutely no coverage of security or have a very thin chapter at the end of their book that talks about SSL. Even WROX's XML Web Services lacks in this area. I am glad to see that WROX filled this void.
The pro's of this book: -Good coverage of the current security standards such as SSL, XML Signatures, XML Encryption, ... Read More
- Not a practical book for building XML security.
- At last a decent Web Services Security Book
