Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers
Category: Computers

* Lays out the foundations of Web services technology: XML, SOAP and WSDL * Presents Web service interfaces to Google, Amazon, and others * Describes, with many examples, how to create Web service clients in cross-browser Javascript, Java (including JSP) and .NET * Shows how to build Web services which combine the results from existing services with your own programs and database usage; Shows how RSS and other XML data can supplement web services