What's Next? (Java & XML, 2nd Edition)

12.5. What's Next?

The next chapter is a direct continuation of these topics. More than ever, XML is becoming the cornerstone of business-to-business activity, and SOAP is key to that. In the next chapter, I'll introduce two important technologies to you, UDDI and WSDL. If you have no idea what those are, you're in the right place. You'll learn how they all fit together to form the backbone of web services architectures. Get ready to finally find out what the web services, peer-to-peer craze is all about.