Overview
"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, 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 .NET Web services. It provides experienced 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 exreusable 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.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewReal World XML Web Services is a superb guide to building web services with either VB.NET or VB6 and the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit. Instead of trying to hide the XML details -- as some books do -- Yasser Shohoud illuminates them with compelling examples, shows how web services technologies fit together, and offers immensely valuable guidance for everything from architecture to coding.
Shohoud, one of the world’s leading XML web services developers, is also Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. (Maybe you’ve heard him at VSLive! or read his articles in Visual Studio, XML, or MSDN magazines.) He begins by walking through the architectural foundation on which web services are built, including the XSD web services type system, XML serialization, SOAP messaging, and WSDL web services description.
Next, he moves on to tools and techniques. First, you’ll learn how to expose existing COM components as web services using both high- and low-level APIs. You’ll implement SOAP headers and faults; master interface-based web services development; and learn how to handle data. There’s also a full chapter on using SOAP extensions to build reusable infrastructure for security, error handling, or usage tracking.
The book concludes by walking you through building a live web service from start to finish: designing messages, forming them with .NET attributes, applying authentication/authorization infrastructure, and more. Shohoud assumes some familiarity with VB (or VB.NET) and ASP (or ASP.NET), but you needn’t have any web services experience: this book will give you all the practical skills you need. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.