本书以案例驱动的形式完整地讲述如何运用Java技术构建Web Service应用系统。本书介绍如何用Sun Microsystems提供的Java Web Service Developer Pack (WSDP)从初始阶段进行开发。这种适合于实际应用的开发组件包含了构建和实施完整的Web Service应用系统所需的各种技术和手段。
Web Service为企业运用各种计算工具实现有效沟通提供了强有力的新方法。这种方法具有完全便携式的数据模型,以在一种新的层次运用Java平台的“一次编程,到处运行”的特性。为了支持*新的基于XML的 Web Service的标准,针对XML应用的Java API使得以*小手工转换数据代价实现的 Web Service的构造变得简便易行。本指南性读物详尽地讲解了这些API,并提供了加强读者对主要概念理解的一些实例。
本书适用于Web Service的应用系统的实现类课程。
Stephanie Bodoff是Sun Microsystems公司的专职作家。曾在分布式计算和通信系统中任软件工程师,并运用面向对象软件开发方法实现多种应用系统的设计

Foreword.
Preface.
1. Introduction to Web Services.
2. Understanding XML.
3. Getting Started with Tomcat.
4. Java API for XML Processing.
5. Simple API for XML.
6. Document Object Model.
7. XML Stylesheet Language for Transformations.
8. Java API for XML Messaging.
9. Java API for XML-based RPC.
10. Java API for XML Registries.
11. The Java WSDP Registry Server.
12. Web Applications.
13. Java Servlet Technology.
14. JavaServer Pages Technology.
15. JavaBeans Components in JSP Pages.
16. Custom Tags in JSP Pages.
17. JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.
18. The xrpcc Tool.
19. HTTP Overview.
Appendix: Java Encoding Schemes.
About the Authors
Index

书评
The Java? Web Services Tutorial is a comprehensive, example-driven, "roll up your sleeves and dive in" guide to building Web services applications with Java? technology. This edition provides a head start on using the Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP) from Sun Microsystems. This complete, ready-to-use package includes a variety of technologies and tools required to build and deploy comprehensive Web services applications today.
Web services offer powerful new ways for enterprises to effectively communicate with each other using diverse computing hardware. This paradigm takes the Java platform's "Write Once, Run Anywhere?" capabilities to a new level by providing a completely portable data model. By supporting the latest standards for XML-based Web services, the Java APIs for XML make it easy to build Web services with minimal hand tweaking of data. This tutorial explains these APIs in detail and provides practical examples to reinforce your understanding of key concepts.