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Summary: Don't buy it: Save yourself some confusion
Review: I bought the EA1 edition through Foyles bookstore. Unfortunately the EA1 edition is massively out of sync with the current FCS version of the software, and the Cd didn't contain the examples (or at least not where the book said they were). So I ended up downloading the examples. The build.xml files in the download are laughably different from the book, and several steps need to be taken which the book mentions nothing of. It's a major shame since the book looked very good. But I completely wasted my £38 and have wound up using the (confusing) online tutorial. Apparently a FCS version of the book is coming out in several months. Wait for it. Assuming that they haven't changed version yet again it should be a good book. Right now it is a waste of money.
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Summary: Why not just read these pages on line
Review: I feel sorry for sun: they have to give away so much for java to succeed, and their direct java revenue must come from J2ee licensees, JCP membership fees and books. This book is a dead-tree of the online JWSDP tutorial, with the benefit that you can read it while off line, the disadvantage that you pay for the privilege. Either way, I dont think it is that good a tutorial; it covers the Sun way of thinking, but doesnt get into the details of interop problems, maybe because SUNW dont seem to be participating in the SoapBuilders interop fests. Interoperability is the bane of and key to the success of web services, and if all you are doing is taking existing EJB beans and turning them into web services, you arent building a real web service. If you are using the Axis framework, there are better books, like the SAMS press one. No doubt something great will come along for the Sun product, but this is not, yet, it.
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Summary: Terse
Review: This book is basically a packaging of Java XML EAE packages of what you can download from the Sun's JavaSoft site.
After skimping thru it briefly, it appears to be very terse and I'm not sure if it can be said as a helpful "tutorial" as such for any beginning/intermediate Java Web Service learner other than showing what EAE(Early Access Edition) is all about.
This book in my opinion needs to be evolved into 3 volumes:
1) Basic XML parsing(SAX, JDOM)
2) XML Schema & Java mappings
3) Java Web Services implementation framework(HTTP, Servlet,RMI,etc). My verdict is this book is not worth its weight and price at the moment.
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