In this chapter, you learned that
Service-oriented architecture focuses on encapsulating solutions to problems into callable services.
Web services interoperate by using HTTP, SMTP and other protocols as transports; SOAP as a messaging protocol; and WSDL as a description language.
UDDI provides a mechanism for storing and searching for Web services.
WebLogic Workshop can create full-featured Web services quickly.
Web service name collisions can be eased or eliminated by using namespaces.
Conversational Web services can be developed with WebLogic Workshop, even under stateless protocols.
WebLogic Workshop applications can use both local and remote Web services by encapsulating them within controls.
WebLogic Workshop autogenerates the necessary support to write standalone Java and JSP Web services clients .
Web services can be secured by using WSSE files to specify incoming and outgoing security.