I never knew REST, heck I wasnt even familiar with SOAP before reading the book. This book helped me deliver my project which is based on REST web services. Plus it made my univ professor's mouth shut when I implemented a REST project for a course whilst the 'rest' of the students did theirs in SOAP (hehe). I basically fell in love with REST, thanks Bill!

when the book was delivered into my hands, I first though: 'WTH?? such a thin book?'

Only then after reading through the chapters did I realize that web service aint that hard after all. This book is very good at an introductory and intermediate level and covers the latest JAX-WS library. All in all, worth a buy.

This book covers practical problems that occur during the course of struts development. The solutions are written in a very clear and concise manner. The 'cookbook' approach makes the solutions to specialized problems more easy. All in all, its totally worth a buy for every architect or struts developer. Caveat, this book is not for learning struts at a novice level. Knowledge of basic struts control flow will help before picking up this book.

and also awesome cover girl of the book...kidding :P .

I have no comments about this book further(the amazon ratings speak for itself). I bet even Homer or Peter Griffin can learn j2ee by reading this book! :)

Its been 2 months now and i have been using this headphone everyday for at least 4 hours. Excellent sound quality coupled with good comfort for the ear. Worth the buy.

Its a very good book, very practical and gives a clear cut explanation to some of the tricky concepts of web services. Problem is some of the JAX API's explained are a bit outdated now...could have been better if they included a short section on JAX-WS.

I find the material very pragmatic and upto the point. But the book shouldnt be used by starting java programmers.

This book rocks!! It covers everything one needs for the exam except for some topics of dependency. I scored a perfect 100% in the 1z0-147 because of this book!!

This book is a piece of sh** in mix colors dissipated by d authors...its one of those books saying "oh im from a good academic env!!..." and all that crap...not 4 ppl who really wanna apply DS in practical programming....code snippets then out of nowhere exercise questions which cannot b comprehended by normal inference from the text....i dnt know wat those 3 morons where trying 2 prove....thank god i bought John Hubbard's book of DS in Java...it does hav some errors in it...but at least it covers everything and gives a sense of satisfaction while reading and going thru d exercise......