The comprehensive resource for any developer who wants to create great solutions based on XML Web services With this guide, the authors set an ambitious course to help professional programmers understand the architecture of XML Web services and implement the right solutions by creating and consuming best-of-breed XML Web services. The book provides a hands-on exploration of how to design, build, and use XML Web services to help developers break new ground with their Web applications. Topics covered include generic Web services, Microsoft ASP.NET–based Web services, the Simple Object Application Protocol (SOAP), Microsoft ADO.NET, .NET Remoting, and more. Key Book Benefits:

• Helps professional programmers understand the architecture of XML Web services and implement the right solutions by creating and consuming best-of-breed XML Web services
• Provides a hands-on exploration of how to design, build, and use XML Web services to help developers break new ground with their Web applications
• Topics covered include generic Web services, ASP.NET-based Web services, the Simple Object Application Protocol (SOAP), ADO.NET, .NET Remoting, and more

Contents

• The core
  • Web services 101
  • Web services and SOAP
  • Describing web services
  • Discovering web services
  • Raw handlers and clients
  • Writing schemas for your services
• Buiding on the core
  • Creating web methods
  • Consuming web services
  • ADO.NET and web services
  • Extending the web services framework
  • General security
• Enhancing the web services framework
  • The global XML web services architecture
  • Web services enhancements
  • Routing and referral
  • Web service security
  • Looking for the future
• Appendixes
  • XSD sipmple types
  • Webliography
  • Glossary