The core idea behind "Real World Web Services" is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers this book delivers.
The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments. For example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month. Iverson focuses on building 8 fully worked-out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest by integrating APIs from popular web sites. "Real World Web Services" doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it focuses on the practical, real world usage of web services as the latest evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication via internet protocols. As you'll see, this includes everything from sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of SOAP and various vendor SDKs. To order your copy or for more information, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realwws/ or call 1-800-998-9938 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real World Web Services Will Iverson Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0-596-00642-X, 222 pages, $29.95 US, $43.95 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realwws/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, or add subscriptions to other topics, go to http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/home For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------
