The first practical, hands-on guide to building Web services!
Web services are the next breakthrough in distributed computing—enabling any organization to make its digital assets available worldwide with unprecedented ease and convenience. Now, one of the field's leading experts has written the definitive guide to delivering standards-based Web services. Graham Glass presents insights and hands-on examples encompassing every core Web services technology—and offers state-of-the-art guidance for ensuring interoperability amongst leading platforms. Coverage includes:
* The key advantages of Web services: interoperability, ubiquity, industry support, and low barriers to entry
* How SOAP is used for web services communications
* Using Web Services Description Language (WSDL), the new XML grammar for describing Web services
* UDDI concepts, API, inquiry, and publishing, plus techniques for creating fluid, dynamically-assembled systems
* Building Web services using the J2EE and .NET platforms
* Integrating J2EE and .NET Web services: a complete mini-project
* The future of Web services: P2P, emerging standards, and more
CD-ROM INCLUDED
The CD-ROM contains GLUE Standard Edition, an intuitive, easy-to-use, 100% Java Web services platform based entirely on open standards. GLUE's rich set of features includes an embedded web server, servlet engine, SOAP processor, XML parser, graphical console, dynamic WSDL generator, dynamic Java/XML mapping, UDDI client and XML persistent storage system. GLUE ships as a single 450K JAR file that can be embedded into almost any application—and, best of all, GLUE Standard Edition is FREE for most commercial uses!
About the Author
GRAHAM GLASS is CEO, chief architect, and founder of The Mind Electric, a firm specializing in Web services, large-scale distributed computing, and peer-to-peer technologies. He was formerly CTO and co-founder of ObjectSpace, where he served as architect and lead developer of the Voyager distributed computing product line, the JGL Java collections library, and the cross-platform C++ toolkits. His Prentice Hall PTR books include UNIX for Programmers and Users: A Complete Guide and The STL Primer. He received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1996.
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