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Summary: Good introductory book to Managers
Review: Very nice book. I have been following some great technolgies over the last 10 years. With Web services, I was overwhelmed with the bundle of various APIs, tools, standards, specifications that emerged. This is a well written book for aspiring Web services enthusiasts. Almost all the chapters are covered in depth with high-level introductions to the technologies.
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Summary: Good for Introduction at Leisure!
Review: Well, I bought this book thinking that it would get me started with developing web services, apart from just introducing them. Though it does a pretty good job of introducing them, its the getting-you-started-with-development part that it fails to impress. Probably it just isn't designed to do that. So if you want to read an introductory text on web-services at leisure, this book is a good choice. Its written in a very comprehensible style and I had no problems understanding the key concepts. However, as is true with any other XML based technology, unless you get some hands on experience with the whole framework, you don't really feel that you are ready to begin professional work as yet. And since XML-based frameworks are usually very detailed and intimidating at first, real-time experience becomes all the more important. I guess now I need to buy another book that'll help me with actual development of web-services .
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Summary: Must be a Programmer to Understand this book
Review: You must have a very good understanding of XML, WSDL, SOAP, AND UDDI and html code. The book explains everything from the point of view of a programmer/developer.
Rating:
Summary: Must be a Programmer to Understand this book
Review: You must have a very good understanding of XML, WSDL, SOAP, AND UDDI and html code. The book explains everything from the point of view of a programmer/developer.
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