Early Adopter HailStorm (.NET My Services)

Due for release in the second half of 2002, .NET My Services represents the first major release into Microsoft's .NET initiative since the .NET Framework beta was released in September 2000. Until recently known by the project name HailStorm, it is the first publicly available web services application platform to be released. This represents a true commitment by Microsoft to the ideals of developing the next generation of web service-based applications that are both language and operating system independent.

Early Adopter HailStorm looks at the first public release of .NET My Services Developer Edition, or HailStorm in a Box as it was called, dispelling the myths that have surrounded it since it was first announced, and how to develop against it. In particular, we look at creating HailStorm compatible SOAP messages, how XML standards-compliant this release is, and how information is added to, updated and deleted from the various services that it implements. Finally, a couple of case studies illustrate how HailStorm may be integrated into real world scenarios.

This book covers:

HailStorm as it will be in version 1.0
HailStorm as it is today
Using SOAP and XPath to talk to HailStorm
HailStorm Data-manipulation Language (HSDL)
Practical case studies

Robert Eisenberg is currently an independent consultant specializing in Web Services. In 1999 he was the CEO and cofounder of an eCommerce consulting firm that was acquired by Framfab Inc., the largest Internet Professional Services firm in Europe. He has written for DevX and spoken on .NET at Microsoft and at local user groups. He can be reached at robert@reassociates.net.

Daniel Maharry currently lives in Birmingham where he has worked for Wrox Press - both there and in India - for three and a half years as an itinerant editor and diarist with a penchant for the obscure topics. With any luck, this tome will see him starting to come out of that particular malaise. At some point, he will take the under construction sign off hmobius.com and put something there of note.

P.G Muraleedharan works for XStream Software India (P) Ltd, a subsidiary of XStream Software Inc. He has written many technical papers for professional journals. Muraleedharan is a regular contributor to international conferences and is a member of several professional organizations. His areas of interest include, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet and web-based applications, and Multimedia applications. He can be reached by email at: pgmurali@vsnl.com.

Jonathan Pinnock started programming in Pal III assembler on his school's PDP 8/e (which had a massive 4K of memory) back in the days before Moore's Law reached the statute books. These days he spends most of his time developing and extending the increasingly successful PlatformOne product set that his company, JPA, markets to the financial services community.