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title: Introduction to WebObjects Web Services Programming Guide
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# Introduction to WebObjects Web Services Programming Guide

Explains how to develop and utilize web services in WebObjects.

## Organization of This Document

This document has the following chapters:

- [Web Services Overview](../Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001019-CH205-TPXREF101) - [Security in Web Services](../Security/Security.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001019-CH206-BBCFFCJB) - [Developing Web Service Applications](../Web_Services/Web_Services.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001019-CH207-CJBCGFCI) - [Developing Direct to Web Services Applications](../DtoWS/DtoWS.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001019-CH208-TPXREF101) - [Document Revision History](../RevisionHistory/RevisionHistory.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001019-CH209-BAJJHJBG)

## See Also

The following list itemizes resources you can use to increase your Web services knowledge.

- The AmazonClient project in `/Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects/AmazonClient` is an implementation of a client for Amazon.com Web services. - *Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI* (Sams) gives great detail on the elements of Web-service development and deployment. - *Architecting Web Services* (Apress) provides a high-level view of Web-service development. - *Java & XML* (O'Reilly) introduces you to XML and processing XML documents using SAX (Simple API for XML). - *Web Services Routing Protocol (WS-Routing)* ([http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-routing.asp](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-routing.asp) ). - *Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1* ([http://www.w3.org/TR](http://www.w3.org/TR) ). - Axis ([http://xml.apache.org/axis](http://xml.apache.org/axis) ) is the SOAP implementation used in WebObjects. - *Web Services Security Core Specification* at [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss](http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss) . - *Canonical XML Version 1.0* ([http://www.w3.org/TR](http://www.w3.org/TR) ). - *Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0* ([http://www.w3.org/TR](http://www.w3.org/TR) ). - *Web Services Description Language (1.1)* ([http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl](http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) ).

In this document, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) refers to SOAP version 1.1 of the specification.

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