UDDI, Soap and Wsdl (Paperback: Illustrated: 500 pages)

-- Includes expert commentary by Aaron Walsh, chairman of the Web3D Consortium's Universal Media Technical Group.

UDDI, SOAP and WSDL are the three key specifications that will drive the Web Services revolution. Now, there's an authoritative one-stop technical specification reference for every developer who wants to use them: Web Services Specification Reference Book: UDDI, SOAP and WSDL presents the official text of all three standards, with expert commentary by a leading expert. The perfect companion to any other book on UDDI, SOAP, and WSDL, this book is the definitive standards reference -- always right at hand, with no time-consuming Internet downloads required! The book begins with an up-to-the-minute preface introducing UDDI, SOAP, and WDSL: their goals, elements, and current status. Learn how Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) creates a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet. Understand Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML/HTTP-based lightweight protocol for accessing services, objects and servers, enabling the creation of rich and automated Web services based on a shared and open Web infrastructure. Finally, understand the features and elements of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), the XML-formatted language designed to describe the capabilities of any Web Service.