Programming Web Services with Soap: Building Distributed Applications (Paperback)

Preface

1. Introducing Web Services
What Is a Web Service?
Web Service Fundamentals
The Web Service Technology Stack
Application
The Peer Services Model

2. Introducing SOAP
SOAP and XML
SOAP Messages
SOAP Faults
The SOAP Message Exchange Model
Using SOAP for RPC-Style Web Services
SOAP's Data Encoding
SOAP Data Types
SOAP Transports

3. Writing SOAP Web Services
Web Services Anatomy 101
Creating Web Services in Perl with SOAP::Lite
Creating Web Services in Java with Apache SOAP
Creating Web Services In .NET
Interoperability Issues

4. The Publisher Web Service
Overview
The Publisher Operations
The Publisher Server
The Java Shell Client

5. Describing a SOAP Service
Describing Web Services
Anatomy of a Service Description
Defining Data Types and Structures with XML Schemas
Describing the Web Service Interface
Describing the Web Service Implementation
Understanding Messaging Patterns

6. Discovering SOAP Services
The UDDI Registry
The UDDI Interfaces
Using UDDI to Publish Services
Using UDDI to Locate Services
Generating UDDI from WSDL
Using UDDI and WSDL Together
The Web Service Inspection Language (WS-Inspection)

7. Web Services in Action
The CodeShare Service Network
The Code Share Index
Web Services Security
Definitions and Descriptions
Implementing the CodeShare Server
Implementing the CodeShare Owner
Implementing the CodeShare Client
Seeing It in Action
What's Missing from This Picture?
Developing CodeShare

8. Web Services Security
What Is a 'Secure' Web Service?
Microsoft Passport, Version 1.x and 2.x
Microsoft Passport, Version 3.x
Give Me Liberty or Give Me -
A Magic Carpet
The Need for Standards
XML Digital Signatures and Encryption

9. The Future of Web Services
The Future of Web Development
The Future of SOAP
The Future of WSDL
The Future of UDDI
Web Services Battlegrounds
Technologies
Web Services Rollout

A. Web Service Standardization

B. XML Schema Basics

C. Code Listings

Index