"You are holding in your hands my favorite book on Web services and .NET. What else can I say? Buy this book now, and be prepared for a new way of coding!"
—Keith Ballinger, Program Manager for XML Web Services, Microsoft
"If you've been searching for a book that goes beyond the Web services hype, and distills the benefits of the actual platform, look no further, you've found the right one."
—Aaron Skonnard, Instructor and Author, DevelopMentor
Real World XML Web Services is the Visual Basic programmer's definitive guide to designing and building Web services. It provides developers with a comprehensive understanding of Web services, covering everything from basic concepts and solutions to interoperability problems. This book begins with a concise and practical introduction to Web services and the foundation on which they are built, including Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Readers learn, by example, how to use each tool for developing Web services, starting with the SOAP Toolkit and the .NET framework.
Visual Basic programmers discover how to:
Use XML Schema to define Web service messages
Use SOAP for messaging and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
Read and modify WSDL documents
Build Web services with the SOAP Toolkit
Create and invoke Web services using the .NET framework
Implement SOAP headers and use SOAP Fault
Develop interface-based Web services
Handle data in .NET Web services, including objects, arrays, and DataSets
Use SOAP extensions to build reusable infrastructure for security and compression
Use Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) at design time and run time
Understand the architecture of other popular toolkits, such as Apache SOAP for Java, and learn how to solve interoperability problems
The book closes by walking the reader through the creation of a Web service with .NET and Visual Basic 6 clients. Real World XML Web Services empowers Visual Basic programmers to design and build the next generation of applications using Web services.
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