Web Services Essentials

by Cerami, Ethan

• ISBN13: 9780596002244
• ISBN10: 0596002246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Seasoned author Ethan Cerami delivers a hype-free introduction to the capabilities of web services, followed by the details on how they work. The author explains and demonstrates the core protocols, showing developers how they interact and how best to apply them to particular web service situations. Demonstrations are written primarily in Java, with other languages used to demonstrate interoperability. Web Services Essentials covers SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. This is the only book to cover web services from a vendor-neutral perspective

Author Biography

Ethan Cerami is a Senior Software Engineer at the Center for Computational Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Computer Science at New York University. He is the author of Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly), and is currently hard at work on "XML for Bioinformatics" (O'Reilly).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I. Introduction to Web Services
Introduction	3	(26)
Introduction to Web Services	3	(6)
Web Service Architecture	9	(4)
XML Messaging	13	(3)
Service Description: WSDL	16	(2)
Service Discovery: UDDI	18	(1)
Service Transport	18	(2)
Security Considerations	20	(2)
All Together Now	22	(2)
Standards and Coherence	24	(5)
Part II. XML-RPC
XML-RPC Essentials	29	(20)
XML-RPC Overview	29	(1)
Why XML-RPC?	30	(1)
XML-RPC Technical Overview	31	(9)
Developing with XML-RPC	40	(6)
Beyond Simple Calls	46	(3)
Part III. SOAP
SOAP Essentials	49	(16)
SOAP 101	50	(2)
The SOAP Message	52	(4)
SOAP Encoding	56	(4)
SOAP via HTTP	60	(2)
SOAP and the W3C	62	(1)
SOAP Implementations	63	(2)
Apache SOAP Quick Start	65	(20)
Installing Apache SOAP	65	(3)
Hello, SOAP!	68	(10)
Deploying SOAP Services	78	(4)
The Tcp TunnelGui Tool	82	(2)
Web Resources	84	(1)
Programming Apache SOAP	85	(34)
Working with Arrays	85	(5)
Working with JavaBeans	90	(10)
Working with Literal XML Documents	100	(6)
Handling SOAP Faults	106	(6)
Maintaining Session State	112	(7)
Part IV. WSDL
WSDL Essentials	119	(38)
The WSDL Specification	120	(2)
Basic WSDL Example: Hello Service.wsdl	122	(6)
WSDL Invocation Tools, Part I	128	(2)
Basic WSDL Example: XMethods eBay Price Watcher Service	130	(3)
WSDL Invocation Tools, Part II	133	(2)
Automatically Generating WSDL Files	135	(5)
XML Schema Data Typing	140	(17)
Part V. UDDI
UDDI Essentials	157	(43)
Introduction to UDDI	157	(2)
Why UDDI?	159	(2)
UDDI Technical Overview	161	(1)
UDDI Data Model	161	(7)
Searching UDDI	168	(14)
Publishing to UDDI	182	(16)
UDDI Implementations	198	(1)
Web Resources	199	(1)
UDDI Inquiry API: Quick Reference	200	(21)
The UDDI Inquiry API	201	(20)
UDDI 4J	221	(52)
Getting Started	221	(1)
Finding and Retrieving UDDI Data	222	(7)
Publishing UDDI Data	229	(3)
UDDI4J Quick Reference API	232	(41)
Glossary	273	(6)
Index	279