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One of the first books to cover Sun Microsystem's new Java Web Services Developer Pack
Written by top Sun consultants with hands-on experience in creating Web services, with a foreword from Simon Phipps, Chief Evangelist at Sun
Case studies demonstrate how to create Web services with the tools most used by Java developers, including BEA WebLogic, Apache Axis, Systinet WASP, and Verisign

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Hands-on developer's guide to Web services prepares you for the next level of distributed computing. Authors clearly show how to implement and deploy Web services using Java while also explaining the fundamentals from the ground up. Softcover.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Tutor book for students at the best, April 28 2004

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Aleksey (Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Developing Java Web Services: Architecting and Developing Secure Web Services Using Java (Paperback)

After reading the complete book i got the impression that the only possible audince for this book are students. For getting just basic understanding on Web Services.
Despite the volume, size and weight, this book is no more than introductory to the basic concepts of WS. Any themes that are slightly beyond basic usage of standards and APIs are not decribed well.
The title does not match contents.
Security. This is very little in the book about real security. Again all limited by SAML and other standards. Nothing on .NET WS security, ws-security, 3d party vendors. Difference is that standards in WS security little have with real deployments.
Architecture. This is not book about architecture of Web Services. Architecture focuses not how this works but what we build. In this sense this book have nothing in this extent.
Describing standards and APIs does not define architecure apparently.
Industry domaina are not covered. Generally business part of WS is not covered. Where is BizTalk, ebXML, XML databases?
Nothing about RDF and Semantic Web as well.
Bottom line is that i can recommend you the book only if you want to study Web Services from academic point of view being a student. This is not a book for professional developer, engineer, manager or software architect.

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4.0 out of 5 stars How things are supposed to work, Feb 23 2004

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C. M. Lowry (Columbia JUG, Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Developing Java Web Services: Architecting and Developing Secure Web Services Using Java (Paperback)

This book is provides a comprehensive overview of creating web services with Java. The first part composed of two chapters is an introduction to web services. It portrays web services as the natural progression of distributed computing. The second part covers architecture and technologies like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, as well as interoperability with .Net. The third part includes important Java APIs for XML (like JAXB, JAXP, etc.) and the Java Web Services Developer Pack. The fourth part covers web services security. The fifth part is basically an introduction to the Sun Net Open Environment (Sun ONE). For the most part each topic has sufficient depth, but for instructional purposes a somewhat different organization (i.e. progressive concept building) would make it an easier read, but perhaps less valuable as a reference.

The book contains numerous code examples and diagrams that depict how things are supposed to work. A couple of interesting pieces are the Case Study using JWSDP from Sun and the Further Reading appendix. Since JWSDP is a free download from Sun, it is a good way to experiment with web services without a large investment. The further reading idea is a good one that is not used frequently enough. Some books have a bibliography, but where do you go to further your knowledge?

Overall, I felt that the book was repetitious and wordy. However, it covers many topics that are important to success in Java Web Services. There is so much repetition that a reader could probably just drop into a chapter on a topic of interest and begin reading. While many developers focus on how their particular vendor delivers web services, if you want to know how the technologies are supposed to work together, this book is a good resource, but you may not want to start here. At 700+ pages, this volume could be quite daunting.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Repetitve and shallow content, Feb 8 2004

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This book is too repetitive and verbose. Pretty much everything is repeated over and over again. When you repeat something over and over again, it becomes painful to read and comprehend. Repetition also increases the number of pages. May be the publishers feel they are providing value to readers by giving them a thick fat repetitive book? When you repeat something repeatedly, you lose the gist of what the person is trying to convey. Repetition makes the discussion verbose. I don't particularly find verbosity and redundancy as positive qualities of a book. The authors also have not scoped the topics to cover well. They are all over the place trying to touch upon in little depth a wide range of topics. That allows them to repeat themselves even more.

Or you could have just read the title of my review. ;-)

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5.0 out of 5 stars practical book.
I teach Java for a living, and this is clearly one of the best book for understanding web services using Java. Read more

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2.0 out of 5 stars Basic Tutorial Aggregation
I'm really disappointed with the book written by the Sun "Architects". I expect them to show much better expertise on web services, even I admit this may not be the book's... Read more