Programming Web Services with SOAP : 9780596000950

Programming Web Services with SOAP introduces you to building distributed Wb-based
applications using the SOAP, WSDL, and UDI protocols. You'll learn the XML underlying
these standards, as well as how to use the popular toolkits for Java and Perl. The book also
addresses security and other enterprise issues.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a buzzword hotter than web services. Breathless articles
promise that web services will revolutionize business, open new markets, and change the way
the world works. Proponents call web services "The Third-Generation Internet," putting them
on a par with email and the browseable web. And no protocol for implementing web services
has received more attention than SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol.

This book will give you perspective to make sense of all the hype. When you finish this book,
you will come away understanding three things: what web services are, how they are written
with SOAP, and how to use other technologies with SOAP to build web services for the
enterprise.

While this book is primarily a technical resource for software developers, its overview of the
relevant technologies, development models, standardization efforts, and architectural
fundamentals can be easily grasped by a nontechnical audience wishing to gain a better
understanding of this emerging set of new technologies.