Programming Web Services with Soap

James Snell, MCSD, has over two years of experience with SOAP. He is in close touch with both the IBM and Microsoft SOAP groups and makes contributions to both efforts. Doug Tidwell is a senior programmer at IBM. He has years of programming experience, and has been working with markup languages for more than a decade. Doug is a speaker on XML and has taught XML classes around the world. Pavel Kulchenko is the author of the popular Perl SOAP implementation, SOAP::Lite.

• Preface 1. Introducing Web Services What Is a Web Service? Web Service Fundamentals The Web Service Technology Stack Application The Peer Services Model 2. Introducing SOAP SOAP and XML SOAP Messages SOAP Faults The SOAP Message Exchange Model Using SOAP for RPC-Style Web Services SOAP's Data Encoding SOAP Data Types SOAP Transports 3. Writing SOAP Web Services Web Services Anatomy 101 Creating Web Services in Perl with SOAP::Lite Creating Web Services in Java with Apache SOAP Creating Web Services In .NET Interoperability Issues 4. The Publisher Web Service Overview The Publisher Operations The Publisher Server The Java Shell Client 5. Describing a SOAP Service Describing Web Services Anatomy of a Service Description Defining Data Types and Structures with XML Schemas Describing the Web Service Interface Describing the Web Service Implementation Understanding Messaging Patterns 6. Discovering SOAP Services The UDDI Registry The UDDI Interfaces Using UDDI to Publish Services Using UDDI to Locate Services Generating UDDI from WSDL Using UDDI and WSDL Together The Web Service Inspection Language (WS-Inspection) 7. Web Services in Action The CodeShare Service Network The Code Share Index Web Services Security Definitions and Descriptions Implementing the CodeShare Server Implementing the CodeShare Owner Implementing the CodeShare Client Seeing It in Action What's Missing from This Picture? Developing CodeShare 8. Web Services Security What Is a "Secure" Web Service? Microsoft Passport, Version 1.x and 2.x Microsoft Passport, Version 3.x Give Me Liberty or Give Me - A Magic Carpet The Need for Standards XML Digital Signatures and Encryption 9. The Future of Web Services The Future of Web Development The Future of SOAP The Future of WSDL The Future of UDDI Web Services Battlegrounds Technologies Web Services Rollout A. Web Service Standardization B. XML Schema Basics C. Code Listings Index