This tutorial, will teach you how to integrate multiple services into an end-to-end business process, including how to invoke web services, receive asynchronous callbacks, manipulate XML documents and handle business exceptions. It also showcases the monitoring, auditing and debugging capabilities of the Collaxa BPEL Orchestration Server. [Collaxa's Take]

REST and here are some links that I hope you find useful:
Don't forget to check out my article "The State of Web Services".

• Web Service Architecture
  • W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group
  • REST
  • Top Ten FAQs for Web Services - O'Reilly
  • [PDF]Understanding Web Services - Sample Chapter
  • [PDF]Understanding Web Services - DevelopMentor
• SOAP
  • SoapWare.org
  • SOAP::Lite Links Page
  • Programming Web Services with SOAP - Sample Chapter on SOAP
  • Java & XML, 2nd Edition - Sample Chapter on SOAP
  • [PDF]Java Web Services - Sample Chapter on SOAP
  • How Soap Compares To Rest
• Alternate SOAP Transports
  • Using SOAP in BEEP
  • A Primer for HTTPR
  • [PDF]Jabber SOAP Binding
  • BEEP FAQS - Highly Recommended
• Articles
  • Counterpane: Crypto-Gram - Bruce Schneier on SOAP security
  • Understanding quality of service for Web services - IBM developerWorks on QoS
  • Put SOAP and ebXML to Work - SOAP and ebXML messaging services promise an open, global infrastructure to advance B2B
  • HTTP a barrier to Web services? - CNET News.com
  • XML, Web Services, and the REST Architecture - ITWorld.com
  • Microsoft guru: Stamp out HTTP - ZDNet News
  • Asynchronous Web Services - David A. Chappell
  • Asynchronous Web Services and the Enterprise Service Bus - David A. Chappell on WebServices.org
  • Google's decision to use SOAP creates anger for REST proponents - WebServices.org
• Blogs
  • Dialog map of discussion on WSDL, SOAP, and the REST architecture
  • Google Weblog
  • SOAP Blog
  • REST, SOAP, Web Services Summary #1 - XML-DEV mailing list weblog
  • Joel on Software - There's a lot of SOAP backlash these days...
  • Google's Genius - Sam Ruby
  • SOAP Wars - Marc Hedlund
  • Paul Prescod's Home Page
  • SOAP vs. REST - Mark Pilgrim
  • The inside scoop on Amazon's XML interface - Mark Pilgrim
  • Rebuttal to REST - Dave Winer
  • James Snell's Blog
  • Simon Fell's Blog
  • Web Services discussion worth watching - Simon St.Laurent
• Mailing List Discussions - A lot of postings so search through xml-dev and W3C archives for best results
  • W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) argues about the safety of various flavors of HTTP programming
  • Roy Fielding talks REST and Web Services
  • Roy Fielding on GET on the problem with SOAP
  • More discussion from W3C TAG
  • What does SOAP really add? - Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev, followed by Paul Prescod, Don Box, and more
  • Re: [xml-dev] Can you stand yet another SOAP-RPC vs HTTP GET question?
  • Dave Orchard on W3C TAG
• XML.com - O'Reilly Network
  • REST and the Real World
  • Google's Gaffe
  • What Web Services Got Right ... and Wrong - Interview with Clay Shirky
  • Emerging Technology Briefs - SOAP
  • When to Use Get? - XML-Deviant reports on the ongoing debate over the correct way to use the HTTP GET method
  • Kicking out the Cuckoo - It is past time that the W3C called an end to its involvement in web services...
• xmlhack - XML news
  • Amazon goes REST, Google goes SOAP
  • Schneier worried about SOAP security
  • RosettaNet to integrate ebXML messaging
  • SOAP security discussion
• XML Cover Pages - nicely compiled resources
  • BEEP
  • Jabber
  • SOAP

Most web services projects are missing out on choreography, a vital extra layer that assembles multiple services into coherent business processes. Choreography directs the connections between separate application resources to create productive business processes:

• Also known as orchestration, it manages links between separate activities
• Enterprises use it to extend and combine the functionality of existing IT assets
• Standards such as BPEL are bringing it into the mainstream

[Collaxa's Take]

Sun Microsystems, Waveset Technologies, and PeopleSoft have announced an expansion of the companies' strategic alliance to deliver an integrated, standards-based identity management solution for use with PeopleSoft applications. The integrated solution uses the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) and will support the ability to initiate and manage the lifecycle of workforce identity information from a single portal interface. [The XML Cover Pages]

A new "Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation)" specification has been published which defines mechanisms used to enable identity, account, attribute, authentication, and authorization federation across different trust realms. WS-Federation with its two supporting profiles extends the WS-Trust model to allow attributes and pseudonyms to be integrated into the token issuance mechanism to provide federated identity mapping mechanisms. [The XML Cover Pages]

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