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Summary: Excellent: tells why web services matter & how to build them
Review: "Web Services" promise to do for interconnected business applications what the traditional web has done for information browsing. Business relationships will be formed and applications interconnected dynamically and automatically: for example, your computer system may arrange automatically to ship packages using a carrier with which you have never done business. Web Services define the standards that will facilitate such communication. In the meantime, before that ambitious vision becomes a reality, the building blocks of Web Services are already being used to connect systems within individual organizations. If you want to know what Web Services can do today, and what's likely to be possible in the future, this book is an excellent place to start. There are quite a few books that tell you how to use one aspect or another of Web Services technology, but this one tells you why as well as how. The authors are experts in the field, and they write well. The book opens with a comprehensive and thought provoking introduction to the business and technology changes that have motivated the tremendous surge of interest in Web Services. In later sections, both novice and expert programmers will find lots of useful detail on getting started, on putting together the piece parts (XML, SOAP, etc.), and on building realistic sample applications. I have worked on Web Services technologies for nearly three years, and I learned a great deal. Whether your interest is in programming Web Services, in using technologies like XML or SOAP, or just in understanding why Web Services are generating so much excitement, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A good book in gerneral, but...
Review: As the reader from San Mateo stated, the Axis part in this book is indeed very out-dated. In fact, the sample code won't even compile without major tweaking if the current axis-beta2 should be used. It's quite disappointing that the book's website does not provide errata or any update on the sample code. However, I found the Wrox Axis book, which is based on axis-beta1, make a nice complement.
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Summary: great book but outdated axis coverage
Review: Best book on Web Services and related concepts. Gives a great overview of all related issues (security, asynch messaging etc.) instead of just the same old java/wsdl/uddi seen in most books. The Axis portion seems to be outdated though. The latest axis release has a whole different configuration mechanism. But does a great job at explaining the architecture. Very useful. The docs on apache's website are quite thin.
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Summary: Buena referencia técnica para principiantes.
Review: Este libro está dirigio especificamente a personas dedicadas al desarrollo de sistemas de información en Internet en Java. El libro tiene una perspectiva meramente técnica y aborda con sumo detalle las tecnologías emergentes relacionadas con los WebServices. Esta versión del libro no esta actualizada por completo en el tema, ya que existen lenguajes como el WSCL que no se abordan. Es una buena referencia técnica aunque puede ser complementaria con otros libros que tengan la visión de la arquitectura de negocios.
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Summary: Great if you have lots of time to burn
Review: I am a developer of web systems. I've owned this book for about six months now, and I've yet to find anything of any value in it. It kind of makes me wonder about who would find this material useful. Overweight college professors in gray cardigan sweaters, smoking pipes maybe?
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Summary: Great if you have lots of time to burn
Review: I am a developer of web systems. I've owned this book for about six months now, and I've yet to find anything of any value in it. It kind of makes me wonder about who would find this material useful. Overweight college professors in gray cardigan sweaters, smoking pipes maybe?
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Summary: sample code is not complete
Review: I am still wondering why the authors don't provide all the code, since the book describes an application and that should have been tested and the code is there. Just a few wsdl files don't help very much.
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Summary: A Suggestion
Review: I do not dispute the view that this may be one of the best books
on web services.Yet I have a suggestion to make.The chapters are too long.People like me,who read from cover to cover,would have prefered,say,three chapters on SOAP,WSDL,UDDI,and then and only then three more chapters on Advanced SOAP,Advanced WSDL,and Advanced UDDI.For people who do not read from cover to cover or who would use this book as a reference,this may not be so critical. This book is unique in the sense that it takes an evolutionary approach to web services by considering where web services came from and where they are going.In this context,the last chapter on the future directions of web services is a very good quo vadis chapter. It is very unfortunate that most popular books on computers take the opposite approach as if new ideas have no fathers and no sons.This is very dangerous because such an approach can only produce sterile bastards in name of new ideas. I generally do not review books but with this first review I want to start breaking this rule.
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Summary: The best book on Web Services using Java
Review: I read 5 books on Web Services using Java. This one is the best. The authors have comprehensive knowledge on Web Services. Their understanding of XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and Axis implementation is impressive. It's good both for beginners and advanced users. Hope they will come up with a revision soon after Axis1.1 is out.
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Summary: Great book to start the journey with
Review: I recently started my first Web Services project and had some ramp-up to do with my knowledge on the subject -- I consider myself being pretty well into J2EE, but the SOAP/WSDL/UDDI triad was something unknown. I picked three books, O'Reilly's "Java Web Services", Wrox' "Professional XML Web Services", and this book. "Building Web Services with Java" beats all the others as an introduction to the mindset of Web Services. The straight-forward but not overwhelmingly hardcore approach suits me and my background. The authors present different angles, alternatives and give meaning to what they are describing. Especially the chapter describing UDDI was the best introduction I've bumped into. Even though I gave it 5 stars, I won't say you'll suffice with this book and only this book. This is an introduction with a great coverage, not a programming reference; If you're looking for one, pick another bible to go with this one.
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