Publisher Description

This book doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it focuses on the practical, real world usage of web services as the latest evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication via Internet protocols. As you ll see, this includes everything from sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of SOAP and various vendor SDKs.

Author Biography

Will Iverson has been working in the computer & information technology field professionally since 1990. His diverse background includes developing statistical applications for use analyzing data from the NASA Space Shuttle, product management for Apple Computer, developer relations for Symantec's VisualCafe, running an independent J2EE consulting company, and now helping build BEA's dev2dev developer web site. Will lives in Union City, California.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Web Service Evolution Client/Server Origins The Undefined Web Planning for Interdependence 2. Foundations of Web Services Basic Networking HTTP From HTTP to RPC 3. Development Platform Tools and Projects Used Test Drive Other Platforms 4. Project 1: Competitive Analysis Application Features Gathering Web Service Data 5. Project 2: Auctions and Shipping Auction Listing XML Processing the Auction XML Connecting to FedEx 6. Project 3: Billing and Faxing Starting the Transaction Getting a Transaction Notification Responding to the Transaction 7. Project 4: Syndicated Search Making Feeds Available Using an Aggregator 8. Project 5: News Aggregator Watcher Implementation Going Further with Quartz 9. Project 6: Audio CD Catalog CDDB Building a CD Catalog 10. Project 7: Hot News Sheet 11. Project 8: Automatic Daily Discussions Weblogs 12. Future Web Service Directions Future Technologies Future Directions Index

Review

"Will Iversons Real World Web Services ist so richtig ein Buch nach dem Herzen eines Praktikers. Lange theoretische Erläuterungen werden vermieden, stattdessen werden Web Services anhand konkreter Beispiele vermittelt. [...]
Das Buch macht Spaß, regt an, auch mal wieder eigene Projekte zu entwickeln oder darüber nachzudenken, was man mit der wachsenden Menge der APIs eigentlich alles anfangen kann (könnte). [...]" -- Jörg Kantel, Schockwellenreiter.de, 09/2005
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Long Description

The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers "Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments: for example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month! The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with. For each example application, the author provides a thorough overview, architecture, and full working code examples. This book doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it focuses on the practical, real world usage of webservices as the latest evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication via Internet protocols. As you ll see, this includes everything from sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of SOAP and various vendor SDKs.

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