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Title: Building Web Services with Java : Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (2nd Edition) by Stephen Graham, Glen Daniels, Doug Davis, Yuichi Nakamura, Simeon Simeonov, Toufic Boubez, Ryo Neyama, Peter Brittenham, Paul Freemantle, Dieter Koenig ISBN: 0-672-32641-8 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 29 June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.84 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent coverage of Web Services Topics
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Was 5 Stars a year ago
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Suggestion
Comment: 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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Title: Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI by Eric Newcomer ISBN: 0201750813 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Developing Java Web Services: Architecting and Developing Secure Web Services Using Java by Ramesh Nagappan, Robert Skoczylas, Rima Patel Sriganesh ISBN: 0471236403 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Java and SOAP by Robert Englander ISBN: 0596001754 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Java Web Services Unleashed by Robert J. Brunner, Frank Cohen, Francisco Curbera, Darren Govoni, Steven Haines, Matthias Kloppmann, Benoit Marchal, K. Scott Morrison, Arthur Ryman, Joseph Weber ISBN: 067232363X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly XML) by Ethan Cerami ISBN: 0596002246 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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