SOAP: Cross Platform Web Service Development Using XML - Softcover

Seely, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130907634 ISBN 13: 9780130907639

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

The computing industry has developed many methods to allow computers to share resources and applications, to create a distributed computing environment--such as DCOM and CORBA. These are the "glue" of today's distributed computing world.

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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!

Technical Reviewers: 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.

Synopsis

SOAP will be the universal "application glue" for tomorrow's widely distributed systems. It's simple, based on widely deployed standards such as XML and HTTP, and will enable virtually any business software to communicate across the Internet. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML offers a practical, hands-on introduction to SOAP that demonstrates how to leverage this technology on multiple platforms, using virtually every leading programming language. Seely begins by reviewing the history of distributed computing, and demonstrating how SOAP solves distributed computing problems that DCOM and CORBA failed to solve. He presents basic introductions to XML, and then to SOAP's syntax -- including SOAP's use of HTTP headers, the SOAP payload, error handling, data types, encoding structures, and more. You'll walk through building a simple SOAP server for Windows; then discover how SOAP can be extended to support multiple platforms and programming languages. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML contains detailed chapters on utilizing SOAP with each of five leading programming languages: C++, Perl, Python, Visual Basic, and Java.

The book concludes by reviewing today's leading SOAP servers. For all developers and system integrators constructing Internet applications, applications written in multiple programming languages, or applications that integrate diverse enterprise systems; and for any IT professional evaluating SOAP.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130907634
• ISBN 13: 9780130907639
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416