Chapter 11. Generating web services layers

11.1 The big picture
11.2 A case study: generating XML-RPC for Java
11.3 Technique: generating SOAP
11.4 Design tips
11.5 Finding a tool to do it for you
11.6 Summary

A web services layer exposes the business logic of your application to the outside world. If your business logic and security layers are well defined, the task of exporting them through web services requires some simple code to interface your API to the RPC layer and to marshal the data between the two. This process involves building a remote-access layer that is a peer of the user interface. You can use several ...

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