Synopses & Reviews
The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments, for example; eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month! The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with. For each example application, the author provides a thorough overview, architecture, and full working code examples. This book doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it focuses on the practical, real world usage of web services as the latest evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication via Internet protocols. As you will see, this includes everything from sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of SOAP and various vendor SDKs.
Synopsis
The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments: for example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month! The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with.
About the Author
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Will Iverson has been working in the computer and information technology field professionally since 1990. His diverse background includes developing statistical applications to analyze data from the NASA space shuttle, product management for Apple Computer, and developer relations for Symantec VisualCafé . For nearly five years, Will ran an independent J2EE consulting company with a variety of clients, including Sun, BEA, and Canal+ Technologies. Will currently serves as the application development practice manager for SolutionsIQ. Will lives in Seattle, Washington.© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Preface; Organization; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Web Service Evolution; 1.1 Client/Server Origins; 1.2 The Undefined Web; 1.3 Planning for Interdependence; Chapter 2: Foundations of Web Services; 2.1 Basic Networking; 2.2 HTTP; 2.3 From HTTP to RPC; Chapter 3: Development Platform; 3.1 Tools and Projects Used; 3.2 Test Drive; 3.3 Other Platforms; Chapter 4: Project 1: Competitive Analysis; 4.1 Application Features; 4.2 Gathering Web Service Data; Chapter 5: Project 2: Auctions and Shipping; 5.1 Auction Listing XML; 5.2 Processing the Auction XML; 5.3 Connecting to FedEx; Chapter 6: Project 3: Billing and Faxing; 6.1 Starting the Transaction; 6.2 Getting a Transaction Notification; 6.3 Responding to the Transaction; Chapter 7: Project 4: Syndicated Search; 7.1 Making Feeds Available; 7.2 Using an Aggregator; Chapter 8: Project 5: News Aggregator; 8.1 Getting Started; 8.2 Deleting a Watcher; 8.3 Current Watcher Listing; 8.4 Watcher Implementation; 8.5 Going Further with Quartz; Chapter 9: Project 6: Audio CD Catalog; 9.1 CDDB; 9.2 Building a CD Catalog; Chapter 10: Project 7: Hot News Sheet; 10.1 Presenting the News; 10.2 Gathering the News; Chapter 11: Project 8: Automatic Daily Discussions; 11.1 Weblogs; 11.2 Generating Posts; 11.3 Generating a LiveJournal Post; 11.4 Viewing the Blogger Post; Chapter 12: Future Web Service Directions; 12.1 Future Technologies; 12.2 Future Directions; Colophon;