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Summary: Highly readable, highly useful introduction
Review: "Web Services Essentials" provides an excellent, concise overview of the complicated world of web services, and makes sense of the alphabet-soup jargon of SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI and WSDL (as well as more obscure protocols). With web services appearing to be the "next big thing" in web development, this book is a must-read for any developer looking to introduce him/herself to the technology, as well as for the technically-minded manager who may soon be responsible for implementing web services. Clear writing and relevant examples make this an enjoyable as well as an informative read.
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Summary: Highly readable, highly useful introduction
Review: "Web Services Essentials" provides an excellent, concise overview of the complicated world of web services, and makes sense of the alphabet-soup jargon of SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI and WSDL (as well as more obscure protocols). With web services appearing to be the "next big thing" in web development, this book is a must-read for any developer looking to introduce him/herself to the technology, as well as for the technically-minded manager who may soon be responsible for implementing web services. Clear writing and relevant examples make this an enjoyable as well as an informative read.
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Summary: Concise and Practical
Review: An excellent software book that I have read in years. It is too the point and explains all the topics nicely and has good enough examples to get you started right away.
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Summary: Perfect reading to get started
Review: An introduction to all the main technologies involved in Web services, with a high level coverage of XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. The book includes a good range of working examples and can be the perfect reading to get started on this topic
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Summary: Good Intro !
Review: I'm in the process of reading this book right now, and so far I like it. The book provides a good introduction to Web Services, and Apache software, on which all the examples in the book are based, is actually very easy to set up.This book opens your eyes to the world of web services, and I must say it does so very well. All the information in the book is probably available online for free, but who has the time to look it all up?
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Summary: Obsolete and belated book
Review: This book is based on obsolete specifications and older SOAP implementation which is not even available for download. The Apache SOAP is already a piece of junk and Apache recommends to use Apache Axis (which is not in the scope of this book). All other implementation examples such as XMethods and UDDI4J are also obsolete as well. The APIs are already deprecated and the code discussed does'nt make any sense.
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Summary: Excellent starting point when dealing with web services
Review: This book is really an excellent one for programmers who want to start with web services. It gives a compact overview of XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Especially Java programmers will find some good code listings. But don't expect more than an introduction to web services.
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Summary: Excellent starting point when dealing with web services
Review: This book is really lacking on much useful information. It's mostly a high-level overview. For anyone seriously interested in web services I'd recommend getting a different book!
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Summary: All bones, no meat
Review: This book is really lacking on much useful information. It's mostly a high-level overview. For anyone seriously interested in web services I'd recommend getting a different book!
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Summary: Disappointing and outdated material
Review: This book is very much outdated. The content needs an immediate revision to support latest specs and especially to support Apache Axis as Apache SOAP is gone ! Why not the authors update the book content and dump it in serverside.com to satisfy the late buyers like me ? It would be a great help.
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