Chapter 29, Web Services and the WebLogic Platform, presented an overview of the Web services supported by WebLogic Server 7.0 (WLS). This chapter describes how WLS Web services work. First, it reviews exactly what thought processes and design issues are involved when you are conceiving a Web service. Then it delves into the tools, deployment, descriptor elements, and features of Web services and why you might choose one tool or feature over another. Then, after you develop your Web service, you need to think about why or how you might need to protect or secure its access. Developing a Web service may be simple, but debugging it can be tricky, so this chapter includes some techniques for diagnosing errors. Finally, because there is more than one way to build a Web service, you can find some good, commonsense guidelines in this chapter s Best Practices section. |