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DB2 Web services for DB2 UDB practitioners

Tim Brown (tim.brown@uk.ibm.com), DB2 UDB Technical Consultant, IBM UK
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Tim Brown is certified as a DB2 Universal Database Solutions Expert and is part of IBM Software Group Services. He has been with IBM for 6 years and currently works in a small team of DB2 experts who provide technical consultancy services to customers across many industries in the UK and across Europe.

Summary:  This article provides an in-depth guide to understanding how to use Web Services with DB2. You'll learn step by step how to build the environment and how to consume Web Services.

Date:  20 May 2004
Level:  Introductory
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Introduction

The purpose of this article is to look at the fundamentals of Web services, how DB2® Universal Database™ implements the ability to provide Web services and how to consume them.

This article gives the reader a good grounding in how to build an environment for providing and consuming Web services using the functionality provided in DB2. It will take the reader through the process of creating a basic Web application using nothing but a text editor. The reason for this is to give the reader a good understanding of what is needed in order to build, provide and consume Web services from the ground up.

Topics covered include:

  • An introduction to Web services
  • Web services fundamentals
  • A walk-through demo
  • Tooling
  • DB2 Web services, why bother?
  • Security
  • Troubleshooting


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Photo: Tim Brown

Tim Brown is certified as a DB2 Universal Database Solutions Expert and is part of IBM Software Group Services. He has been with IBM for 6 years and currently works in a small team of DB2 experts who provide technical consultancy services to customers across many industries in the UK and across Europe.

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