The term "Web Services" can be confusing. It is, unfortunately, often used in many different ways. Compounding this confusion is term "services" that has a different meaning than the term "Web Services."
On this site, the term Web Services refers to the technologies that allow for making connections.
Services are what you connect together using Web Services. A service is the endpoint of a connection. Also, a service has some type of underlying computer system that supports the connection offered. The combination of services - internal and external to an organization - make up a
service-oriented architecture.
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Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI (Independent Technology Guides) by Eric Newcomer Average Customer Review: based on 25 reviews. Customer Review: This title is very good for understanding basic WS technologies. But is older for now and some informations are outdated. Reprint with updated information (espec. UDDIv3) would be good.
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library) by Steve Graham, Doug Davis, Simeon Simeonov, Glen Daniels, Peter Brittenham, Yuichi Nakamura, Paul Fremantle, Dieter Koenig, Claudia Zentner Average Customer Review: based on 35 reviews. Customer Review: This book has helped me immensely in implementing some really intense production quality data interchange across systems using web services. This book will quickly help you understand the entire XML stack of technologies that you will need for Web Services. The authors have uniquely enabled the readers to develop an understanding of...
Programming Web Services with SOAP by James Snell, Doug Tidwell, Pavel Kulchenko Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews. Customer Review: If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need. If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want. If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need.
Perspectives on Web Services: Applying SOAP, WSDL and UDDI to Real-World Projects (Springer Professional Computing) by Olaf Zimmermann, Mark R. Tomlinson, Stefan Peuser Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: This book excells in explaining the IBM Toolsets and their applicability in the Web Services and SOA area. Unfortunately they are for version 5 and a version 6.x addendum would be great. Having said that working the examples into version 6 format is good practice and not too much sweat. This book provides all the coverage you need if...
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