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Web services offer a new and evolving paradigm for building distributed web applications. This book focuses on the essentials of web services and covers four main technologies: XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. The book offers a high-level overview of each technology. It also describes the relevant API and discusses implementation options for each technology. The book includes a broad range of working examples so that you can immediately see web services in action.
This book is written for developers who are new to web services. It aims to to provide you with a "big-picture" perspective to enable you to understand the scope and extent of web services, while also providing you with enough nuts and bolts and sample code to start writing your own services.
When choosing between a proprietary system and an open source implementation, we tend to favor open source implementations. When choosing among programming languages, we tend to favor Java. To make the most of the book, you should therefore have solid Java programming experience. |
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