Product Description: Web Services are self-describing, modular applications. The Web Services architecture can be thought of as a wrapper for the application code. This wrapper provides standardized means of: describing the Web Service and what it does; publishing it to a registry, so that it can easily be located; and exposing an interface, so that the service can be invoked - all in a machine-readable format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chapters written by professional programmers discuss XML specification and navigation, linking, XSLT, presentation technologies, databases, messaging, and B2B applications. (view table of contents)