Summary

In this chapter, you learned about deployment strategies and ways to secure your XML Web services. We covered the following topics:

• How to create a setup program to install an XML Web service

• How to publish an XML Web service by using a static discovery document

• How to Publish an XML Web service to a UDDI registry

• How to implement XML Web service authentication by using either Windows or ASP.NET authentication

• How to implement custom authentication by creating custom SOAP headers

• How to authorize access to resources by using File- and URL-based authorization

• How to encrypt SOAP messages by using SSL and HTTPS

• How to modify SOAP messages, like adding encryption, by creating custom SOAP extensions