Learn the secret to building solid and secure web services using Zend Framework with this book.
Inside the covers of this book you will find chapters on building web services using SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and REST. Each of the protocols has a chapter dedicated to it. You will first understand the concepts and then be introduced to the practical application of the protocol.
Anyone who as done any programming will know that good web services start by choosing the right protocol but the work doesn’t end there. In this book you learn how to secure your web services, how to build ACLs to control access to them, as well as how to build unit tests to test them after each change. In short, this book gives you everything you need to take your existing Zend Framework knowledge and build high quality web services.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Zend Framework
Chapter 2. Our Data
Chapter 3. SOAP
Chapter 4. Customizing Our SOAP Service
Chapter 5. REST
Chapter 6. XML-RPC
Chapter 7. JSON-RPC
Chapter 8. Limiting Access using Zend_Acl
Chapter 9. Performance and Scaling
Chapter 10. Unit Testing
Chapter 11. Security
Chapter 12. End-User Documentation
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Appendices

Appendix A: Development Environment Setup
Appendix B: SpecificTools Used
Appendix C: Potential Impact of ZF Moving to 2.0