Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Second Edition presents the Web services model and provides a guide to using the most current, most stable, and most effective standards available today. The expert authors tap into the growing body of best practices emerging in the Web services space and show you how to apply these concepts to your projects.

I Web Services Basics
1 Web Services Overview Service-Oriented Architectures
2 XML Primer
3 The SOAP Protocol
4 Describing Web Services
5 Implementing Web Services with Apache Axis
6 Discovering Web Services

II Enterprise Web Services
7 Web Services and J2EE
8 Web Services and Stateful Resources
9 Securing Web Services
10 Web Services Reliable Messaging
11 Web Services Transactions
12 Orchestrating Web Services

III Web Services in the Real World
13 Web Services Interoperability
14 Web Services Pragmatics
15 Epilogue : Web Services Futures

Appendix
A Glossary

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