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The early chapters offer an introductory overview, describing the SOAP specification and giving simple examples in Perl, Java and .Net. Next comes a more complex example, using a Perl server and an Apache SOAP client. There is a chapter on describing Web services with WSDL, and another on discovering Web services with the UDDI registry or the more recent WS-Inspection language. The authors then give a real-world example, explaining the CodeShare Service Network, an open source project for sharing code. Finally, there is a look at security and a peek into the future of SOAP. In the end SOAP is software plumbing, as the authors readily admit, and makes a rather dry topic. Even so, it is an essential part of Web development today and this short, clear presentation does a great job of showing how to put it to work. --Tim Anderson
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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.
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1) The examples are full of errors. If you buy this book, check the "errata" page for the book on O'Reilly's web site before you try to test the examples.
2) There is very little explanation of how the examples are supposed to work. Therefore, if they don't work "off the shelf" - and they don't - then it makes it quite hard to get them running.
3) There isn't enough background (from my point of view, anyway) on the underlying technologies and how they interract to deliver SOAP, e.g. Web Servers, CGI, HTTP daemon, Perl, VBScript etc.
I am an experienced C++ programmer, but I am new to Web programming. If you are more familiar than me with Apache, IIS, CGI, Perl, VBS etc, OR if you are more of a manager type looking for an overview of the technology without wanting to get into the nitty-gritty of the examples, then perhaps your mileage with this book will differ from mine.
But I really can't recommend it.
I guess what I missed is what I find most confusing: the overlap of J2EE and web services, and up to date deployment details. There's no information on invoking EJB session bean methods for example. The Apache Axis implementation coverage is necessarily sparse, and I guess implementation/deployment details for most platforms will change frequently. Coming from a Java background, I really appreciated the language neutral tone of the book. If ever there was a book designed for frequent web updates (I read it on Safari), it's this one.
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