Resources

Web services use the Secure Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP for data exchange. Hence in order to deploy a web service we need a SOAP implementation as well as an application server. Fortunately, we do not have to write all the code for these from scratch. There are quite a few open-source tools available that considerably ease the task of developing, publishing, and querying web services. Here is a list of tools that we are using and other web-service related resources.

SOAP implementations:

• Apache Axis Project

• SoapLite

Web/Application Servers:

• Apache Tomcat

Database Server (for backend)

• IBM Cloudscape

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL

Other Resources

• Java Parser for the Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

• IBM Web Services Toolkit

• Java API for Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) (for web service discovery)

Please email suggested additions to usriv@stanford.edu.