Description:

While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds.

Using a decidedly hands-on approach, authors Alexander Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers present extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source tools available on Windows, Linux, and OS X).

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Defining Web Services
Chapter 2 The Plumbing: DOM and SOAP
Chapter 3 More Services: Java Applet
Chapter 4 DBService and a Book Club
Chapter 5 Authentication and REST
Chapter 6 Restructuring Results with XSLT
Chapter 7 Tomcat, JSP, and WebDAV
Chapter 8 WebDAV Client to Database via XML
Chapter 9 WSDL and Axis
Appendix A Installation
Appendix B Troubleshooting
Appendix C Online Resources