March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 36m
English
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Organization
Here’s how the book is structured:
- Chapter 1
This chapter defines web services; provides an overview of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI; and discusses the different business uses for web services.
- Chapter 2
This chapter introduces the role of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how application architecture can leverage programs developed using a SOA.
- Chapter 3
This chapter introduces the SOAP protocol and shows how it is layered on top of HTTP. It discusses the SOAP envelope, header, and body, and how SOAP with attachments works. This chapter introduces the Apache SOAP engine and the Apache SOAP client API that provides a Java interface for sending and receiving SOAP messages.
- Chapter 4
This chapter continues the SOAP discussion by describing how SOAP deals with method invocations, exception handling, and the
mustUnderstandheader attribute.- Chapter 5
This chapter introduces WSDL and the steps involved in creating a web service description. It provides an overview of the different ways WSDL may be created within a Java program.
- Chapter 6
This chapter discusses the UDDI initiative and the makeup of a UDDI Business Registry. It introduces the inquiry and publishing API for UDDI and demonstrates how to access a UDDI registry using the Apache SOAP client library, a custom library provided by a vendor, and JAXR. This chapter also discusses higher-level abstraction Java APIs for seamless access to a registry.
- Chapter 7
This chapter introduces two relatively new client programming ...
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