Chapter 10

Securing Web Applications, Services, and Servers

Gerald Beuchelt     Demandware, Inc., Burlington, MA, United States

Abstract

The advance of Web applications, services, and server technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web applications, services, and servers based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), related open standards, and deployed in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), allow data and applications to interact without human intervention through dynamic and ad hoc connections. Web applications, services, and server technology can be implemented in a wide variety of architectures; can coexist with other technologies and software design approaches; ...

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