| The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services.
Think of this book as a field guide to the wild and woolly world of nontrivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects that demonstrate the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments; for example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month.
Not all web services are created equal: some rely on a variety of strange formats; others require extensive and error-prone XML; and still others require a minimal knowledge of SOAP and WSDL. This book provides compelling examples of the value of SOAP and WSDL for the client developer. |
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