Web Services (SOAP, RESTfull, etc)

The Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services 5 (SCDJWS) certification exam (designated CX-310-230) is for developers who have been creating web services applications using Java technology components such as those supported by the Java Web Services Developer Pack, JAX-WS and JAXB. Other topics like XML, JSON, REST and security are covered too.

ServiceStack is an open source framework designed to be an alternative to the WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web API frameworks. It supports REST and SOAP endpoints, autoconfiguration of data formats, inversion of control containers, object-relational mapping, caching mechanisms, and much more. With ServiceStack Succinctly by Zoran Maksimovic, you'll learn the basics by creating and implementing a simple order management system, and in no time you'll see why so many web developers rely on it.

This book provides a pragmatic introduction to REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the architecture behind the World Wide Web, and covers the key principles: Identifiable resources, links and hypermedia, standard methods, multiple representations and stateless communication.

This book is an introduction to XML Web Services and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). From the table of contents: Introduction to Web Services, Web Services Description Language, Data Types in WSDL, DataSets, Webservices and Javascript, SOAP Headers, Soap Extensions, Encrypting and Decrypting Soap Data, Attributes, SOAP Faults, ASP.Net WebServices, WSDL and DISCO, Remoting.

Learn the basic architectural concepts and step through examples of consuming and creating RESTful web services in PHP. This book targets PHP developers who want to build or make use of RESTful web services, or explore the options available to them in PHP. You will need to know the basics of PHP development, but no knowledge of REST is assumed, nor any knowledge of creating web services generally.