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Summary: A complet book on introduction to web services
Review: This book reminds me the crash courses. The book is for a quick introuductions and a helpful examples to understand. This book starts with the introduction to web services and continues with xml-rpc and an example in java. Next chapter is about SOAP and instruction is provided to install and configure Apache SOAP server. The book continues with WSDL and UDDI and examples in java. This can be the best book as an introduction to web services, but not of the one when you need to deliver some code by next month.
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Summary: Best book for web services beginners
Review: This is the best introduction book for web services. If you try all the examples, you will get a good feeling of the next big thing in web development.
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Summary: Drop in the Ocean
Review: We use webservices at my company to let other systems interface with our products. I buy a lot of technology books and the majority of them are from Oreilly.
This 300 and odd page coverage of web services essentials is the most shallow coverage that i have ever seen. It has helped me to no extent except understand the multitudes of jargons in the web services world.
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Summary: Great Book on WebServices
Review: Webservices is relatively new technology,but there is unusual hype around every
protocol associated with webservices,say XML-RPC,SOAP,UDDI,WSDL.Ethan Cermani,author of the book writes lucidly about every aspect of these technologies.
His approach to this book is so planned;he got text book style of writing ie sentences are
pithy -filled with meaning,no nonsense explanations,no unnecessary elaborations,to the point
almost clinically precise. "A webservice is anyservice that is available over the Internet,
uses a standardized XML messaging system,and is not tied to any
progrmming language or operating system." also "A webservice
is self describing via common XML grammar,and discoverable
via a simple find method".author summarises whole scenario in
handful of words!!
He divided the whole book into 9 chapters,introducing XML-RPC
SOAP,WSDL,UDDI and other W3C issues,evolving security standards
in the first chapter giving panoramic over view of webservices. In remaining 8 chapters he delved deep into all the topics he introduced.
He dedicated 3 chapters for SOAP Essentials which is needed,
Which is Standardized XML message system to be used in Webservices.
Before this there is one chapter covering in-depth
much sought after XML-RPC;with equal diligence he uncovers WSDL
in one chapter which is essential in describing webservices.
Finally he finishes the book with thorough coverage of UDDI ,
(in 3 chapters)which is essential in discovering webservices. For SOAP examples he followed APACHE implementation,which is
open source readily available over net for free download.covered
GLUE clearly,under WSDL invocation tools. if you want to know why SOAP no more stands for SIMPLE OBJECT
ACCESS PROTOCOL;In the plethora of objects still RPC which is
proverbially procedural reigning the roost,this is the book
you need to keep on the bed side or over the desk top.
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Summary: It is Essential and useful too!
Review: When it comes to computer books, we have all seen it before: a couple of books with a catchy title are successes, the publisher then wants to continue leverage the
name recognition and comes out with other books that have the same word in the title. Even those friendly folks at O'Reilly Publishing seem to be guilty of this problem; exactly how large does a book have to get before it is no longer a 'nutshell'? "Web Services Essentials" might sounds like just such a title. At a not very thick 278 pages I wondered how much territory this book would cover. Would it be too high level or detailed but not cover the territory. As a long time Java developer, reader of the industry press and president of the Utah Java Users Group I have seen my share of overviews and introductions. I am pleased to report that theWeb Services Essentials lives up to it title. It is an impressively compact overview of the essentials of Web Services, but including the enough detail down to working code. I have seen lots of computer books including many from O'Reilly, but I rarely find one that is such a clean straight forward introduction to the material as Web Services Essentials. I was pleasantly surpised and found it to be just the book I needed to get to the level of working examples of Web Services using Java. This book lived up to it title, serving well it role as small book containing just the essentials including working code and complete examples of the various XML documents and Java APIs involved in the world of Web Services.
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