Chapter 6. Accessing a Web Service
After completing this chapter, you’ll be able to:
Describe the basics of web services
Define and use the SOAP method of accessing web services
Define and use the REST method of accessing web services
MANY PEOPLE ARE USED TO working with websites in an interactive fashion. For example, when you want to buy a book from Amazon, you go to the Amazon site, choose the book, and then follow a series of prompts to purchase it. Likewise, when you want to interact with eBay, Google, Twitter, or hundreds of other sites, you manually perform the tasks required for the interaction. However, most of these sites recognized long ago that businesses often require some sort of automated way to interact with a website efficiently. ...
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