User's Guide

Web Services Toolkit

Audience

The audience for this document is composed of IT professionals and applications developers building new Web applications in a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment. Sybase assumes that these professionals have training in Java and XML.

How to use this book

Use this document to understand the use of Web Services Toolkit.

Table 0-1 describes the contents of this book.

Table 0-1: Chapter descriptions
Chapter	Contents
Chapter 1, "Introduction"	Description of the Web Services Toolkit
Chapter 2, "Starting the Web Services Toolkit GUI"	Description of connecting to the Web Services Toolkit
Chapter 3, "Creating and Using WSDL Documents"	Description of WSDL and how it is used in Web Services Toolkit
Chapter 4, "Using the UDDI Registry Site"	Description of the UDDI Registry sites
Chapter 5, "Using SOAP Management"	Description of how to use the SOAP management functions
Chapter 6, "Using the wstool Command Line Tool"	Description of how to use the wstool command line.
Chapter 7, "Selecting an EAServer Component for Your Web Service"	Description of a Web service, datatypes, serializing, and deserializing
Chapter 8, "Using the Sybase Web Services Client Proxy"	Description of using the Client proxy
Chapter 9, ".NET Client Support"	Description of how Microsoft's .NET clients interoperate with Web Services.
Chapter 10, "Security in the Web Services Toolkit"	Description of security in Web Services Toolkit

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in this manual, including terminology and format. The following table shows some of the style conventions used in the documentation for this product.

Table 0-2: Style conventions
Information Type	Example
Programs Utilities Procedures Commands	create connection
File names Directory names Properties	sybase/Webservices/bin
Code examples Screen text	Web Services
User input Command line input	start.bat
Variables (replace these with the appropriate values for your site)	host_name
Variables in code that you type (replace these with the appropriate values for your site)	<designated Jaguar server>

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