Web services overview

  • WebSphere V5.1.1 Web Services Handbook

    This IBM Redbook describes the new concept of Web services from various perspectives. It presents the major building blocks on which Web services rely. Well-defined standards and new concepts are presented and discussed.

  • Web services (r)evolution, Part 1

    This article focuses on the benefits and challenges of building Web services applications. Web services might be an evolutionary step in designing distributed applications, however, the technology is not without problems. Outlined are the difficulties developers face in creating a truly workable distributed system of Web services. This article also outlines author Graham Glass's plan for building peer-to-peer Web applications.

 

Develop Web services

 

Performance

The following Web sites

offer tips and best practices to get the best performance from your Web services applications:

 

UDDI

 

WSIF

  • The Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. Of particular interest is the Apache Web services project. The WSIF source code is donated by IBM to the Apache Software Foundation, and is maintained here as an Apache project.

 

WS-I Basic Profile

 

SOAP

  • SOAP

    This article is a detailed overview of SOAP, which includes programming specifications.

  • SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature

    This document specifies the syntax and processing rules of a SOAP header entry to carry digital signature information within a SOAP 1.1 Envelope

 

Security

 

Samples

  • Samples Gallery

  • Samples Central. Samples and associated documentation for the following Web services components are available through the Samples Central page of the DeveloperWorks WebSphere Web site:

    • The IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry.

    • The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF).


 

See Also


Web services

 

Related Tasks


Developing Web services applications
Securing Web services for v5.x applications based on WS-Security
Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF): Enabling Web services
Using the UDDI Registry