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. This new book, "Consuming Web Services: The APIs from Google, Amazon, and Beyond," provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds. Using a decidedly hands-on approach, the authors show extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI in a variety of programming languages.
Technology Involved: Java, Perl, XML, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, JavaScript, .NET, JSP, RSS
Alexander Nakhimovsky
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From the reviews:
"In contrast to a great many other books on web services, this book is structured firmly around what is out there and what works. … A number of extended examples are used in the book … . This extended example brings together many of the topics that are covered separately. … the book also provides much useful additional, but essential, material. … Overall then, this is a useful book … . the reader can very quickly get up to speed and start experimenting." (TechBook – Report – online, March, 2004)