edoneel's WebServices resources

Getting Started

Web Services consist of the following components

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Resources

Articles

• The first issue of ACM's Queue magazine had 3 articles about web services - scroll to the bottom
• The June 2003 issue of Communications of the ACM has a whole big section on Web Services

Running Services

• Amazon.com's web services.
• Google
• Tim O'Reilly has an article about the above two Services

Documents

Ranked in the order one should read them

• SOAP Primer
• SOAP Part 1
• SOAP Part 2
• WSDL
• Web Services Architecture spec
• Web Services Inspection Language 1.0 - The WS-Inspection specification provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site for available services and a set of rules for how inspection related information should be made available for consumption.
• HTTPPR Spec - HTTPR is a protocol for the reliable transport of messages from one application program to another over the Internet, even in the presence of failures either of the network or the agents on either end. It is layered on top of HTTP.
• Web Services Transaction Spec - describes coordination types that are used with the extensible coordination framework described in the WS-Coordination specification (below)
• Web Services Coordination spec - an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications.