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New - TWiki Soap Client Plugin, Links, resources, and notes on all aspects of web services.

Web Services

• Web Services
  • Core Specifications
  • Related Specifications
  • Publicly Available Web Services
  • Toolkits
  • Other Resources
  • Related Technologies
    • BEEP
  • Overview of BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol)
  • See Also

Core Specifications

• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 Part 1: Core Language
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 Part 3: Bindings
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 Part 2: Message Patterns

Related Specifications

• XML Schema Spec

Publicly Available Web Services

• Live Web Services at Cape Science
  • FOP service XML to PDF
• xmethods.net
• soapclient.com - many tools and links
  • Generic browser-based SOAP client
• AmazonWebServices

Toolkits

• TWiki:Plugins/SoapClientPlugin
• Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.2
• GLUE - from the Mind Electric
• SOAP::LITE
• IBM WSIF - Web Services Invocation Framework - now at the apache project
• Pocket SOAP WSDL Validator
  • Requires zvon schematron - ISO/IEC 19757 - DSDL Document Schema Definition Language - Part 3: Rule-based validation - Schematron

Other Resources

• Web Services Essentials by Ethan Cerami, O'Reilly (Book examples source code - zip 70K)
  • Chapter 6 : WSDL Essentials
• Internet application workbook by Philip Greenspun et al

Related Technologies

BEEP

The BEEP protocol is a lighter-weight protocol than HTTP, and can be used for nearly any kind of message pattern - it is not limited to the request/reply exchange. It has less byte overhead than HTTP, yet has a richer semantics (in some ways).

Overview of BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol)

• IETF framework
• layered directly on top of TCP
• built-in features include:
  • initial handshake protocol
  • authentication
  • security
  • error handling

... see BeepProtocol

See Also

• WsdlNotes
• SoapAndXmlRpc
• SoapOneDotTwo

-- DaleBrayden - 25 Jun 2003