Professional Xml Web Services (Paperback)

Introduction1
Who Is This Book For?
What You Need To Use This Book
How Is This Book Structured?
Conventions

Customer Support

Chapter 1 Evolution Of Web Services

Web Services are the Future!
A Brief History of Distributed Computing
Enter Web Services
Architecture of Web Services
Vendor Tools and Frameworks for Web Services
The Service-Oriented Internet
Summary

Chapter 2 Internet Transport Protocols: An HTTP and SMTP Primer

The Need for Protocols
The Internet Protocol Stack
Overview of SMTP
Overview of HTTP
Summary

Chapter 3 SOAP Basics

SOAP Fundamentals
SOAP Messages
Data
Transports
SOAP and RPC
Summary

Chapter 4 WSDL: the Web Services Definition Language

A Brief History of WSDL
Why WSDL?
WSDL Syntax
Transmission Primitives
Protocol Bindings
WSDL Examples
Summary

Chapter 5 SOAP Bindings

Detours into Background Information
HTTP
SMTP
FTP
Summary

Chapter 6 Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UDDI Specifications
Other Technologies
Summary
References

Chapter 7 UDDI Implementations

Setup
Introduction to UDDI4J
Microsoft UDDI SDK
HP Web Services Platform
UDDI::Lite
Other Implementations
Summary
References

Chapter 8 Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0

SOAP for "Legacy" Windows
Cruising at 10,000 Feet--the High Level API
Drilling Down--The Low Level API
Documents--The SMO Framework
Beyond the Basics
Summary

Chapter 9 Other SOAP Implementations

Before We Get Started
SOAP::Lite for Perl
EasySoap++
SOAPx4
Summary

Chapter 10 Java Web Service Implementations

Introduction
Simple First Demo
Passing Objects
Wrapping Strategies
Proxy Generation With WSTK
UDDI
End Game
Epilog
Summary

Chapter 11 .NET Web Services

Getting Started with Web Services for .NET
Acquiring the Visual Studio .NET Beta 2
Acquiring the .NET Framework SDK Beta 2
Downloading the .NET Framework Redistributable
A. NET Primer
An ASP.NET Web Service
ASP.NET Web Services with Visual Studio .NET
Building Web Service Proxies
Building a Web Service with .NET Remoting
Summary

Chapter 12 Developing Web Services With Python

Standard Python Library Modules of Interest to Web Services Developers
Third-party Python Modules and Tools of Interest to Web Services Developers
Installing the Required Software
Python and SOAP
Python and WSDL
Web Services Implementation in 4Sulte Server
Summary
Further Resources

Chapter 13 Web Services Security

Security and XML Web Services
Approaches to Web Services Security
Application Level Security
Summary

Chapter 14 Case Study: A Java Filesystem Web Service

The Filesystem Web Service
Apache SOAP and the Pluggable Provider
Setting Up The Server
Setting Up The Database
Writing a Pluggable Provider
Writing the Filesystem Web Service
Using SOAP Attachments
Deploying Web Services Using Pluggable Providers
Writing the Filesystem Proxy Class
Writing the Filesystem Client Class
Packaging the .jar File
Trying It Out
Summary

Chapter 15 Case Study: Wrox Online Auction Domain

Requirements
Implementing the WOAD Web Services
What Have we Achieved?
Summary
Appendix A
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1
Abstract
Status