Table of Contents
Preface ..............................................................................................................................1
Audience........................................................................................................................1
Organization...................................................................................................................2
Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................................3
Comments and Questions ...............................................................................................3
Acknowledgments..........................................................................................................4
Part I: Introduction to Web Services...............................................................................5
Chapter 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................6
1.1 Introduction to Web Services....................................................................................6
1.2 Web Service Architecture.......................................................................................10
1.3 XML Messaging.....................................................................................................15
1.4 Service Description: WSDL....................................................................................17
1.5 Service Discovery: UDDI.......................................................................................18
1.6 Service Transport....................................................................................................19
1.7 Security Considerations ..........................................................................................21
1.8 All Together Now...................................................................................................22
1.9 Standards and Coherence........................................................................................24
Part II: XML-RPC.........................................................................................................25
Chapter 2. XML-RPC Essentials..................................................................................26
2.1 XML-RPC Overview..............................................................................................26
2.2 Why XML-RPC?....................................................................................................26
2.3 XML-RPC Technical Overview..............................................................................28
2.4 Developing with XML-RPC ...................................................................................35
2.5 Beyond Simple Calls ..............................................................................................40
Part III: SOAP ...............................................................................................................42
Chapter 3. SOAP Essentials..........................................................................................43
3.1 SOAP 101...............................................................................................................43
3.2 The SOAP Message................................................................................................45
3.3 SOAP Encoding......................................................................................................48
3.4 SOAP via HTTP.....................................................................................................52
3.5 SOAP and the W3C................................................................................................54
3.6 SOAP Implementations ..........................................................................................55
Chapter 4. Apache SOAP Quick Start .........................................................................57
4.1 Installing Apache SOAP .........................................................................................57
4.2 Hello, SOAP! .........................................................................................................59
4.3 Deploying SOAP Services......................................................................................68
4.4 The TcpTunnelGui Tool.........................................................................................72
4.5 Web Resources.......................................................................................................74
