Part 1: Basic Web Services Standards, Technologies, and Concepts

In this first section of the book, we briefly review the industry standards, technologies and concepts that underlie Web services. These critical technologies support the development of Web services as well as applications that use (or consume) Web services. But, be forewarned that these foundational technologies do not provide everything necessary to build Web services and applications that meet enterprise requirements. We cover these advanced technologies in Section Two of this book.

In this section, we describe the following technologies that together make up the basic Web services platform:

Chapter 2: XML Fundamentals. In this first of three chapters in Part One, we start ...

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