This IBM Redbooks publication describes the concepts of Web services from various perspectives. It presents the major building blocks on which Web services rely. Here, well-defined standards and new concepts are presented and discussed.

While these concepts are described as vendor independent, this book also presents the IBM view and illustrates with suitable demonstration applications how Web services can be implemented using IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and IBM WebSphere Application Server Toolkit 6.1.

This book is a rewrite of the book WebSphere Version 6 Web Services Handbook Development and Deployment, SG24-6461. The new book covers the latest specifications in regard to Web services and Web services security.

This book is structured into three parts:

Part 1 presents the underlying concepts, architectures, and specifications for the use of Web services.

Part 2 shows how Web services can be implemented and deployed using the latest IBM products. Here, we introduce the weather forecast application, which we use in many ways to demonstrate these concepts and features.

Part 3 shows some advanced techniques, such as Web services security, interoperability, the service integration bus, and the new support for the specifications WS-Addressing, WS-Resource, WS-BusinessActivity, and WS-Notification.

Part 1. Web services concepts

Chapter 1. Web services introduction

Chapter 2. Web services standards

Chapter 3. Introduction to SOAP

Chapter 4. Introduction to WSDL

Chapter 5. JAX-RPC (JSR 101)

Chapter 6. Web Services for J2EE

Chapter 7. Introduction to UDDI

Chapter 8. Web services security

Chapter 9. Web services interoperability

Chapter 10. Web services architectures

Chapter 11. Best practices

Part 2. Implementing and using Web services

Chapter 12. IBM products for Web services

Chapter 13. Sample application: Weather forecast

Chapter 14. Development overview

Chapter 15. Develop Web services with Application Server Toolkit 6.1

Chapter 16. Test and monitor Web services

Chapter 17. Deploy and run Web services in WebSphere Application Server 6.1

Chapter 18. Command-line tools, Ant, and multiprotocol binding

Part 3. Advanced Web services techniques

Chapter 19. WS-Addressing and WS-Resource

Chapter 20. Web services transactions using WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity

Chapter 21. Web services and the service integration bus

Chapter 22. WS-Notification

Chapter 23. Web services interoperability tools and examples

Chapter 24. Implementing a private UDDI registry

Chapter 25. Securing Web services

Chapter 26. Web services caching

Appendix A. Installation and setup

Appendix B. Additional material