Understanding Web Services Specifications and the WSE

By Jeannine Hall Gailey and Gailey

Keep pace with evolving Web services specifications--and get developer-to-developer insights for using them to deliver advanced, interoperable solutions for Microsoft .NET. This guide provides a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735619131
• ISBN13: 9780735619135
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Most up-to-date information on the WS-Specs and WSE out righ

This book gives readers a brief introduction to WS-Specs like WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-Attachments, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust and WS-Transactions, and shows how to use the WSE (based on early adopter 2.0 code) in conjunction with these specs. This book is good for someone who is a beginning to intermediate web services programmer, who wants to learn how to use the WSE to secure their web services. I thought Jeannine did a good job of laying out the basics, with enough code samples to walk the reader through. It does require basic knowledge of .NET coding, since the code samples use C#. I'm looking forward to downloading the sample code - although it's based on a beta of the 2.0 code, and all we can download right now is the tech preview. There is no other book out there right now with the 2.0 code, or the latest on the specs, which are still in the process of changing.

Very informative introduction to Web Services.

This book really increased my understanding of the subject WSE SDK. The code samples helped me understand more about the WS-specifications. The author explains the potential of WS-security and WS-policy and shows examples of how this can be implemented.

.Net - the future

I am a user of .Net Services in a variety of forms. My favorite is Blackboard for teaching. The .Net Specifications book provides a great insight into what can be done with the XML message interfaces. It also shows that a high level of security can be maintained. I am going to keep this book handy as I try to really understand .Net applications.

Most up-to-date book on WSE and the related standards

As a Microsoft programmer, I've been watching emerging Web service standards with great interest. Having programmed extensively with WSE 1.0, I am eagerly awaiting version 2.0 of WSE as it supports WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust, and WS-Policy and its related specifications. Jeannine's book is the only one out there that covers these critical new WSE 2.0 features and specifications, and she gives some great examples of using SecurityContextTokens in a client-service interaction and using policy statements to automate security for a Web service. Since the WSE SDK documentation hasn't been great, this book is a must for WSE programmers. Hopefully, Jeannine will add some TCP-based messaging samples in a future version of this book. As a bonus, she describes some important specifications not supported by WSE, like WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction, and her ideas on where Web services are headed are very compelling. Clearly, this book is on the cutting edge of advanced Web services.

Great read for web services programming

This book helped me understand more about WS-specifications, and to learn to program with Microsoft's new version (2.0) of the WSE. It was easy to read and had useful programming examples.