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Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services

Name: Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Author: Tom Myers
ISBN: 9781590591314

by Tom Myers, Alexander Nakhimovsky

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Overview

While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds.

Using a decidedly hands-on approach, authors Alexander Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers present extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source tools available on Windows, Linux, and OS X).

Synopsis

While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of Web Services and others are dedicated to providing Web Services, few books show how to consume Web Services. This new book provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds. Using a decidedly hands-on approach, the authors show extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source tools available on Windows, Linux, and OS X).

Technology Involved: XML, JavaScript, SOAP, Java, JDBC, REST, XSLT, JSP, WSDL, WebDAV

About the Author, Tom Myers

Tom Myers studied physics in Bogota and Buenos Aires before receiving his bachelor's degree from St. John's College, Santa Fe, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. A software developer and consultant, he has been working mostly on Java/XML projects for the past few years; some earlier research in parallelism and in functional programming languages seems to be coming back to life, within XSLT. In addition to joint publications with Alexander Nakhimovsky, he is the author of a book and several articles on theoretical computer science.

Alexander Nakhimovsky received a master's degree in mathematics from Leningrad University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University, with a graduate minor in computer science. He has been teaching computer science at Colgate University since 1985. He is the author (jointly with Tom Myers) of several books and book chapters, including JavaScript Objects, Professional Java XML Programming, and Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition, as well as books and articles on linguistics and AI.