June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
23h 16m
English
book
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Second Edition
by Steve Graham, Doug Davis, Simeon Simeonov, Glen Daniels, Peter Brittenham, Yuichi Nakamura, Paul Fremantle, Dieter König, Claudia Zentner
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Introduction
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WEB SERVICES! Web services is an evolving collection of standards, specifications, and implementation technologies that are showing great value in the world of application integration and distributed computing. Web services continue to evolve to address more sophisticated computing scenarios, and the authors of this book are excited to bring you into what is widely believed to be the next generation of distributed computing.
Before we get going, we need to clarify some things about the purpose and structure of the book. Let’s talk about them now.
Goals of This Book
The overall goal of this book is to familiarize you with the concept of Web services and what it will take to incorporate Web services as part ...