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XML Index - XML Book :
SOAP: Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML
by Scott Seely, Kent Sharkey Paperback - 400 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (August 20, 2001) Prentice Hall PTR ISBN: 0130907634 Dimensions (in inches): 1.12 x 9.27 x 7.00 From the Back Cover: • Leverage the power of SOAP on any platform, with any leading programming language! • Integrate your enterprise applications across the Web! • The platform-independent guide to SOAP • SOAP programming with C++, Perl, C#, Visual Basic, and Java • Build an industrial-strength SOAP system from scratch • CD-ROM: SOAP for Windows, Linux and Unix, plus extensive source code library! Yves LaFon, Chair of the SOAP W3C Committee John Montgomery, Lead SOAP Developer, Microsoft Kent Sharkey, .NET Frameworks Technical Evangelist, Microsoft SOAP is the universal "glue" that can integrate virtually any distributed system, helping enterprises streamline processes and communications across the Internet as never before. SOAP: Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML is the practical, hands-on introduction to using SOAP on Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms, using any of five leading programming languages. Discover how SOAP leverages key Internet standards such as XML and HTTP to solve distributed computing problems that DCOM and CORBA can't! Coverage includes: • All the XML you need to get started with SOAP • SOAP's basic syntax: HTTP headers, SOAP payloads, error handling, data types, encoding structures, and more • Extending SOAP to support heterogeneous and legacy environments • SOAP programming with C++, C#, Perl, Visual Basic, and Java • Comparing today's leading SOAP servers The last six chapters of this book present a start-to-finish SOAP case study application-from requirements and design through coding. Whether you're constructing Internet applications, integrating existing applications within or between enterprises, or simply evaluating SOAP, this book contains the insights-and practical examples-you're looking for. CD-ROM INCLUDED The accompanying CD-ROM contains complete SOAP implementations for Windows, Linux, and UNIX, plus all source code from the book. Customer Reviews Reviewer: A reader from Germany The book introduces the Microsoft approach to Web services. SOAP part: • 130 pages, 75 of which feature a C++ implementation of SOAP • the conceptual SOAP introduction is more or less directly copied from the W3C SOAP 1.1 specification, it even uses the same examples • the list of available implementations is incomplete and not up to date There are 50 pages on WSDL and UDDI, two technologies complementing SOAP (again more or less a 1:1 copy from the W3C specifications). There is a large case study applying the technologies and the Microsoft tools for them (has a section on interoperability). I did not look into it in detail. An appendix gives some information on SOAP::Lite (Perl). Reviewer: Tom Wiekowski from Eau Claire, Wisconsin My boss wanted me to show him that something complex could be done using XML Web Services. I took about a day and a half to setup the case study from this book (case study is an auction web site that has a Linux box talking to Windows servers running both the SOAP toolkit and VS .NET Beta 2). He and his boss were amazed that something like that could be put together using XML. As an added bonus, the explanations of SOAP, WSDL, and the rest made it easy for me to explain what was going on under the covers. Scott has some great stuff on MSDN as well. To get a feeling for his writing style, just look for his name there. Reviewer: A reader from Boston, MA This is a really good book and I learned a lot from it. After reading some of the reviews, I noticed that people seem to run hot and cold on this book. Since I loved it, I thought I could put in this word of warning: make sure you have done some actual development before grabbing this book. Scott assumes that you understand how to write code and glosses over a lot of that stuff. He does assume you know nothing about XML or SOAP and does an excellent job bringing the reader up to speed. Reviewer: A reader from Los Angeles, CA I recently bought this book to learn about how things really worked. I was happy to see that the book avoided a lot of the fluff seen in other texts and that it explained the protocols well. I had a couple of questions and wrote to the author with them. Scott replied promptly and gave me some good advice. I higly recommend this book. |
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