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Building Web Services with Java™: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
By Steve Graham, Simeon Simeonov, Toufic Boubez, Doug Davis, Glen Daniels, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama
Publisher	: Sams Publishing
Pub Date	: December 12, 2001
ISBN	: 0-672-32181-5
Pages	: 600

		Copyright
		About the Authors
		Acknowledgments
		Tell Us What You Think!
		Introduction
			Goals of this Book
			Assumed Background
			Philosophy
			Overview of the Book's Composition
			Introducing SkatesTown
		Chapter 1.  Web Services Overview
			What Is a Web Service?
			The Web Service Opportunity
			Trends in e-business
			Why Do We Need a Web Services Approach?
			Service-Oriented Architectures
			Web Services Interoperability Stacks
			Summary
		Chapter 2.  XML Primer
			Origins of XML
			Document- Versus Data-Centric XML
			XML Instances
			XML Namespaces
			Document Type Definitions
			XML Schemas
			Processing XML
			Summary
			Resources
		Chapter 3.  Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
			Evolution of XML Protocols
			Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
			Doing Business with SkatesTown
			Inventory Check Web Service
			SOAP Envelope Framework
			Taking Advantage of SOAP Extensibility
			SOAP Intermediaries
			Error Handling in SOAP
			SOAP Data Encoding
			Architecting Distributed Systems with Web Services
			Purchase Order Submission Web Service
			SOAP Protocol Bindings
			Summary
			The Road Ahead
			Resources
		Chapter 4.  Creating Web Services
			Why and What Is Axis?
			The Axis Architecture
			Installing Axis
			Configuring Axis
			Security
			Simple Web Services
			Client-Side Programming
			Advanced Web Service Deployment
			Document-Centric Services
			Data Encoding/Decoding
			Building Handlers
			Specialized Pivot Point Handlers, a.k.a. Providers
			Faults
			Message Patterns
			Building and Deploying an Intermediary
			SOAP V1.2
			Monitoring
			Summary
		Chapter 5.  Using SOAP for e-Business
			Web Services Security
			Enterprise Application Integration
			Quality of Service
			Summary
			Resources
		Chapter 6.  Describing Web Services
			Why Service Descriptions?
			Role of Service Description in a Service-Oriented Architecture
			Well Defined Service
			History of IDLs
			Web Services Definition Language (WSDL)
			WSDL and Java
			Future Service Description Efforts
			Summary
		Chapter 7.  Discovering Web Services
			The Role of Service Discovery
			The Role of Registries
			UDDI
			Private UDDI Registries
			What's New in UDDI Version 2.0?
			Using WSDL with UDDI
			Summary
		Chapter 8.  Interoperability, Tools, and Middleware Products
			Interoperability: The "Holy Grail" of Web Services
			The Larger Web Services Landscape
			Summary
			Resources
		Chapter 9.  Future Concepts
			Computing as a Utility
			Ontologies and the Semantic Web
			Software Agents
			Peer-to-Peer Computing
			Grid Computing
			Embedded Web Services
			Pulling It All Together
			Resources
		Glossary
		Index