Expanding on a Foundation


The XML Web services model is here to stay. In fact, it is so popular and solves so many of the problems developers face that its adoption rate is quite outstanding. After this model was introduced, however, many companies found that it was missing some core pieces that would enable organizations to use the new technology as it was intended.

Most notably, users complained that Web services lacked some enterprise basics such as a standard way to provide different types of credentials, to route SOAP messages, and to perform certain transactions such as encryption, digital signing, and more. Many more issues arose, but these were some of the most vital ones.

Individual vendors might be able to come up with their own solutions for these problems, but doing so violated the basic concept of the Web Services model-Interoperability.

If you want Web Services to work with credentials, encryption, or transactions between disparate systems, you must have common standards agreed upon by the industry at large. This ensures that your XML Web services will work with requests to and from Unix-based systems. So, in a sense, the XML Web services model and this book are based upon the concept of interoperability. Everyone wants specifications that provide a common language and enable us to tie our systems together. This has been a goal of the enterprise for quite awhile, and it is slowly starting to be realized.




Professional XML
Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN: 0471777773
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 215

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