Google, Amazon, and Beyond by A. Nahkimovsky (Paperback - Apress)

While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of Web Services and others are dedicated to providing Web Services, few books show how to consume Web Services. This new book, Consuming Web Services: The APIs from Google, Amazon, and Beyond, provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds. Using a decidedly hands-on approach, the authors show extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI in a variety of programming languages. Technology Involved: Java, Perl, XML, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, JavaS...cript, .NET, JSP, RSS7Lays out the foundations of Web services technology: XML, SOAP and WSDL7Presents Web service interfaces to Google, Amazon, and others7Describes, with many examples, how to create Web service clients in cross-browser Javascript, Java (including JSP) and .NET7Shows how to build Web services which combine the results from existing services with your own programs and database usage;