CSC9YW Links

The following web links may be of interest:

APIs

These links provide APIs for various web service tools.

Apache Extensible Interaction System (Axis)
Xerces XML Parser (Xerces)

Textbooks

These links provide pointers to additional information and downloadable code.

Java, XML, and Web Services Bible (M. Jasnowski)
SOA for The Business Developer (B. Margolis)
Web Services Platform Architecture (S. Weerawarana, F. Curbera, F. Leymanm, T. Storey, D. F. Ferguson)

Standards

These standards provide vastly more information than is needed for the course, and are more likely to be confusing than helpful. Consult them only if you need very specific points answered. The standards are voluminous and should not be printed.

Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL)
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
Web Services Addressing (WS-A)
Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Extensible Markup Language Schema (XML Schema)

Service Registries

Remote Methods (RemoteMethods, not UDDI)

Tools

These links provide pointers to downloadable, open-source tools related to web services. They can be tricky to configure, so ask before you commit to installing these yourself.

ActiveEndpoint Business Process Execution Language (ActiveBPEL)
Ant Build Tool (Ant)
Apache Extensible Interaction System (Axis)
Java Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (jUDDI)
Tomcat Web Server (Tomcat)
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration for Java (UDDI4J)
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Browser (UDDIBrowser)
Web Services Description Language for Java (WSDL4J)
Xerces XML Parser (Xerces)

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