Description
Book SynopsisThis is a field guide to the woolly world of non-trivial deployed web services. Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Web Service Evolution Client/Server Origins The Undefined Web Planning for Interdependence 2. Foundations of Web Services Basic Networking HTTP From HTTP to RPC 3. Development Platform Tools and Projects Used Test Drive Other Platforms 4. Project 1: Competitive Analysis Application Features Gathering Web Service Data 5. Project 2: Auctions and Shipping Auction Listing XML Processing the Auction XML Connecting to FedEx 6. Project 3: Billing and Faxing Starting the Transaction Getting a Transaction Notification Responding to the Transaction 7. Project 4: Syndicated Search Making Feeds Available Using an Aggregator 8. Project 5: News Aggregator Watcher Implementation Going Further with Quartz 9. Project 6: Audio CD Catalog CDDB Building a CD Catalog 10. Project 7: Hot News Sheet 11. Project 8: Automatic Daily Discussions Weblogs 12. Future Web Service Directions Future Technologies Future Directions Index
