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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 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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Summary: Excellent coverage of Web Services Topics
Review: I've been thoroughly impressed with this book. It throws a wide net over most of the current web services standards and technologies, and gives you at least an understanding of where they all fit, while still providing you with enough depth on the crucial ones (SOAP (with Axis), UDDI, etc.) so that you can get started with real projects. I particularly liked the way in which the authors have created an all-in-one reference book on the most important web services technologies. For instance, I've never been able to read SOAP messages without having a reference on XML namespaces and XML schemas handy -- no more -- it's all here in this book. The coverage of the new Apache Axis project is especially good; not only does it explain the advantages of the new architecture for handling SOAP headers, but it gives code examples for making use of these new features. This is to be expected, since many of the authors of this book are major contributors to the Axis project. I also found the chapters on Web Services security and UDDI to be helpful and enlightening. While all of the chapters in the book don't live up to the promise of these excellent chapters, it's still overall an great introduction to this new set of technologies. And by the way, the guy that gave the book 1 star because it has "no source code downloadable" should have first tried going to www.samspublishing.com and done a search on the author's names -- the page for the book CLEARLY has a section for "downloads" where you can get the source code.
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Summary: Pedantic, Good as a reference
Review: Pedantic, takes up a number of points of academic interest only. Way too long. Coverage is wide and detailed. Good, but not excellent writing style. Definately not a good first book or tutorial on web services. More intended as a reference or for the advanced student with prior hands on experience.
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Summary: Was 5 Stars a year ago
Review: Still a good reference. Funny someone wrote they had yet to find anything of value in it because just the other day I needed a concise review of XML schema. I found the XML primer from this book to be the best most clearly written explanation I had seen. And it cover a lot of ground in relatively few pages. Giving a book 1 star because it is dated is near sighted. Yes, look at the publication dates because things change fast. But when this book came out it was one of the better ones and so I think the authors deserve credit for that. It offers a nice explanation of the layers of web services, the various components that work together. While some things change, many things really just grow more complex and the latest explanation may not be the best. I can see dropping it a star but a good resource it was and still is as i noted. I was thinking about the value of older computer books the other day and I realized, sometimes the perspective is different in an older book so things that are no longer explained much are discussed with more detail. For example, a 1996 book on learning Java is obviously of no value, right? Well I thought so also. Then as i was going to toss it, I read the last chapter describing in great detail how Java works under the hood. I have NEVER seen such a complete techincal discussion down to the bits and bytes in any other book. And those things are still true today. So an older book can go into details you may not find in a new book because things taken for granted now were being explained for the first time then. Keep the better older ones, they can still help you as this one did me.
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Summary: Samples
Review: There is an important thing missing in this book: complete samples. It is hard sometimes to understand what they are explaning since you just see a fragment of a WSDD, but not the classes or vice-versa. Since the book is already too long, the authors should have samples in the Internet. They even don't need to explain too much about these complete samples. Leave the developers to comment and validate them in Internet forums. In my view, samples will transform what now is just a so-so book in an excellent one.
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Summary: Poor for working schmucks, great for students
Review: This book can be summed up in one word: bloated. It is too heavy and based on theory rather than real-world examples and summarized concepts. I am a product developer in the working world, and I simply don't have time to churn through this huge book. The only chapter that was slightly relevant was the one on Apache Axis. If you want to learn the ins and outs of web services from a theoretical and architectural standpoint, this might be your book. Otherwise I would go with another book if you want working examples and concise writing.
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Summary: Outdated
Review: This book is outdated. Buy either Developing Java Web Services (Wiley) or Java Web Services Architecture (Morgan Kaufman)
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Summary: Good but Dated
Review: This was the best book on Web Services when it was released in 2001. More recent books by Wiley and MKP will serve you better.
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