Building Web services with Java - Making sense of XML, SOAP, WDSL, and UDDI

Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Second Edition presents the Web services model and provides a guide to using the most current, most stable, and most effective standards available today. The expert authors tap into the growing body of best practices emerging in the Web services space and show you how to apply these concepts to your projects.

Based on open industry standards, Web services enable your software to integrate with partners and clients in a fashion that is loosely coupled, simple, and platform-independent. Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Second Edition explains the various emerging standards associated with Web services, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI).

Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Second Edition discusses Web services from a business and technical perspective, explaining and demonstrating how Web services can be used to address various business problems, in particular those related to application integration. The authors present running examples throughout the book, implemented in Java and the Apache Software Foundation's Axis Web services infrastructure.