Introduction


WebLogic Platform offers one of the most comprehensive suites of tools for building, deploying, and consuming Web services. The WebLogic Platform technology stack embraces the current Web services' standards of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI). It also provides support for upcoming Web services' standards such as JAX-RPC (Java APIs for XML-based RPC).

This chapter provides a high-level overview of the Web services features in WebLogic Platform 7.0. It assumes that you are already familiar with the concept of Web services and the unique problems they solve. Chapter 7, "An Introduction to Web Services," provides an excellent introduction to these concepts and is highly recommended as prerequisite reading before you proceed.

First, the chapter reviews the basic architecture of Web services; then it examines how that framework is expressed in WebLogic Platform 7.0 by providing a roadmap of Web service components in Platform 7.0. The chapter then examines the two types of Web services, simple and message-style, as well as the different back-end application components that can actually fulfill the services. The next logical step is to examine a Web service under the hood and then finally delve into the various Web service client APIs available in WebLogic Server.



BEA WebLogic Platform 7
BEA WebLogic Platform 7
ISBN: 0789727129
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 360

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