Includes developing Web services based on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java API for XML-based remote procedure call (JAX-RPC) specifications.
Includes key Web sites that discuss performance best practices.
Includes an overview about UDDI and information about the UDDI Java API.
Includes a look into the Apache Software Foundation and its maintenance of WSIF.
Includes an overview about the WS-I Basic Profile.
Includes an overview about SOAP, information about the SOAP syntax and processing rules.
Includes a roadmap to security, the WS-Security specification, best practices, a profile of the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and more.
Includes the Samples Gallery for WebSphere Application Server and Samples Central for UDDI and WSIF.
The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.
These links are provided for convenience. Often, the information is not specific to an IBM WebSphere Application Server product, but is useful all or in part for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas.
Web services overview
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.
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.
Developing Web services
This document describes the SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) and how this API provides a standard way to send XML documents over the Internet from the Java platform.
This document describes the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification.
This document reviews the JAX-RPC specification which enables Java technology developers to develop SOAP-based interoperable and portable Web services.
This article is a detailed overview of Web Services Description Language (WSDL), which includes programming specifications.
PerformanceThe following Web sites offer tips and best practices to get the best performance from your Web services applications:
UDDI
This article is a detailed overview of Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).
This article is about using WSDL with UDDI. Although it is based on the UDDI Registry in WebSphere Application Server Version 5, it remains a useful description of the recommended approach for use of WSDL with UDDI.
This article is an introduction to the new features in UDDI Version 3.
WSIF
WS-I Basic Profile
SOAP
This article is a detailed overview of SOAP, which includes programming specifications.
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
This document describes a proposed model for addressing security within a Web service environment. It defines a comprehensive Web Services Security model that supports, integrates, and unifies several popular security models, mechanisms, and technologies, including both symmetric and public key technologies. Enable a variety of systems to securely interoperate in a platform and language-neutral manner. It also describes a set of specifications and scenarios that show how these specifications can be used together.
The Web Services security specifications describe enhancements to SOAP messaging
to provide the quality of protection through message integrity, message confidentiality,
and single message authentication. Use these mechanisms to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies. Web Services security
also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with messages. Additionally, Web Services Security describes how to encode binary security tokens. Specifically, the specification describes how to encode
X.509 certificates and Kerberos tickets, as well as how to include opaque encrypted keys. It also includes extensibility mechanisms that can be used to further describe the characteristics of the credentials that are included with a message.
This document specifies the syntax and processing rules of a SOAP header entry to carry digital signature information within a SOAP 1.1 envelope
This document describes clarifications, enhancements, best practices, and errata of the Web Services Security specification.
This document proposes a set of standards for SOAP extensions used to increase message confidentiality.
This document describes the support for multiple token formats, trust domains, signature formats, and encyrption technologies.
This document provides a short description of the certification path API.
This document specifies XML digital signature processing rules and syntax. XML signatures provide integrity, message authentication, or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere.
This specification describes a method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form, of an XML document that accounts for the permissible changes.
Canonical XML [XML-C14N] specifies a standard serialization of XML that, when applied to a subdocument, includes the subdocument ancestor context including all of the namespace declarations and attributes in the "xml:"namespace.
This document specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML.
This document specifies an XML Signature decryption transform that enables XML Signature applications to distinguish between those XML encryption structures that are encrypted before signing, and must not be decrypted, and those that are encrypted after signing, and must be decrypted, for the signature to validate.
Samples
Related concepts
Web services
Related tasks
Developing Web services applications
Securing Web services for version 5.x applications based on WS-Security
Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF): Enabling Web services
Using the UDDI Registry