This hands-on developer's guide to Web services prepares you for the next level of distributed computing. The authors clearly show how to implement and deploy Web services using Java while also explaining the fundamentals from the ground up. After providing a detailed introduction to Web services, they walk you through the Web services architecture and its core building blocks, including standards and technologies. You'll then learn how to develop Web services solutions using Sun Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP 1.0) APIs and how to expose your J2EE applications as Web services. Focusing on concepts, technologies, and practical techniques, the authors discuss the evolving standards landscape for Web services, including the important developments to ebXML

By RAMESH NAGAPPAN, ROBERT SKOCZYLAS, and RIMA PATEL SRIGANESH.