Web Services: Building Blocks for Distributed Systems Book

Web services are the next leap forward in distributed computing, enabling any organization to make its digital assets available worldwide, more easily than ever before. Now, there's a complete guide to the techniques and technologies used to deliver Web services. Written by Graham Glass, one of the field's leading experts, Web Services is thoroughly practical, offers extensive examples, presents in-depth coverage of key standards, and focuses on maximizing interoperability. Glass begins with a brief history of distributed computing that explains why Web services are the next logical step in building distributed systems. Next, he introduces key Web services technologies, including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. He then demonstrates how web services can be built using the J2EE and .NET platforms, and provides a mini-project that shows how web services created using these technologies can easily interoperate. Lastly, Glass previews the future of Web services, discussing thought-provoking topics such as the convergence of web services with peer-to-peer computing and the likely direction of Web services standards. The CD-ROM contains GLUE, an intuitive, 100% Java Web services platform that can be used to run all of the book's examples, and to support a wide range of commercial Web services development.Read More