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The book "Web Services" (Servicii Web), by Sabin Buraga and Lenuţa Alboaie, is available from Polirom Publishing House.

The volume is focused on Web services, one of the most important, dynamic and successful areas of actual technologies. The book presents in a systematic way the languages, technologies, and methodologies used in Web service development process. Different implementations are detailed, by using several programming languages, development tools and platforms.

• Development of XML-based distributed applications
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Web service description via WSDL – from data model to development instruments
• SOAP protocol (message structure and encoding, data processing and transport, relation between SOAP and HTTP, examples)
• Discovering Web services (UDDI and WS-Inspection); using jUDDI to create a private UDDI registry
• Web service development and deployment in C/C++, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, and Visual Basic via .NET, Java, and Delphi environments, by using Apache Axis2, gSOAP, NuSOAP, and SOAP::Lite
• Access to external Web services (Google and XMethods)
• AJAX for asynchronous invocation of Web services; the use of Prototype and Atlas ASP.NET frameworks
• Web services engineering, security and inter-operability. WS-* initiatives
• Web services for business, grid, and Web 2.0