Rating: 
Summary: All examples book - Good buy
Review: I call this book quite outstanding than other books because I find examples and useful techniques for all Web services scenerios. Examples are well illustrated with step by step instructions. The examples cover most popular Java Web services servers like Axis, Weblogic, .NET and Tomcat/Java Webservices pack. This book also teaches the complete basics of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. If you are developing Java/J2EE based Web services using Weblogic or Axis, I am sure the examples will help you. It has a chapter on Microsoft .NEt and building .NET clients for Apache Axis, which helped me a lot. If you are a J2EE developer who want to learn how to build web services, No doubt this book will be a good buy.
Rating: 
Summary: Buy this book today!
Review: I purchased this book along with Java Web Services Architecture and both are of high quality. Written by top-notch Sun employees, this book will teach you everything you need to know about developing web services.While I liked the Java Web Services Architecture book a little better, this one is better priced. Buy this book if you are price sensitive.
Rating:
Summary: This book is high quality!
Review: I purchased this book last week and was happy to see the quality of material covered within the book. Basically, it covers the fundamentals of web services and does a good job explaining SOAP. The security chapter in this book is long. I like this book and would recommend it to others. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is because I liked another book Java Web Services Architecture a little better. This book is good and worth the money.
Rating:
Summary: practical book.
Review: I teach Java for a living, and this is clearly one of the best book for understanding web services using Java. It does an outstanding job of explaining many of the examples using Sun Java web services apis and it includes examples for using axis, weblogic etc. The microsoft .net interoperability and architecture case-study chapter makes it worth more.
Rating: 
Summary: Extremely repetitive. Examples hard to follow
Review: I'm only 100 pages into this book so maybe things will change, but I
wanted to post my initial impressions of this book to warn others
considering a purchase. This book has two primary problems which make it very difficult to
absorb: 1) The authors tend to repeat themselves extensively. For example,
pages 28-38 describe various web-services related technologies
(XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc.). Pages 46-50 repeat the same
overview of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI etc. I get the feeling that two
different people wrote these two sets of pages with neither
consulting the other. Thus we have duplicate information that
wastes a reader's time. 2)The examples are hard to follow. The first end-to-end web services
example begins in chapter 3. From page 41 to 95, it is difficult
to keep track of all the steps the authors chose to implement for
their example. In the end (page 95), we find this quote: "If everything
works successfully, you will get the output shown in ..." This
gives me the impression that the authors themselves had trouble
getting their examples to work. When I purchased this book, I was looking for a good, non-repetitive
overview of web services, related Java techonologies, and an overview
of other applicable technologies. I wanted to see concise examples of
end-to-end systems working together. Unfortunately, this book has not
met these goals.
Rating: 
Summary: Basic Tutorial Aggregation
Review: 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 intension. 1. The book is like an aggregation of tutorials on basic stuff of each topic. There is no technical depth and you are far from building practical web services after looking at their examples. 2. The concepts are not well explained. Easy topics are repeated while important topics are ignored. It's hard to learn something you don't already know. 3. The book is not well reviewed. There are numerous technical errors and typos. The book does have a good scope, and can be a convenience of browsing the field, as it puts the related topics under one roof.
Rating:
Summary: Good reference
Review: I've been looking for a good reference book to help me in my web services project work, as I was not familiar with the topic. After reading the reviews I decided to give it a try and to my pleasant surprise, I've realized it's worth buying. I recommend this book for beginners as well as intermediate level. This book along with Morgan Kaufmann's "Java Web Services Architecture"(which I also purchased) would provide complete reference for web services.
The only drawback is that the book covers JWSDP1.1, but there's no big deal about it 'coz there's little difference between the current & previous versions of JWSDP.
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Summary: All example book for demonstrating Java Web services
Review: If you want one book that describes HOW TO BUILD real world Java Web services applications successfully, then this is it. I've read a number of related books that describe many aspects of Java APIs Web services and have always been left wanting, how to put all the WEBSERVICES BUILDING BLOCKS together using Java APIs. This is the ONLY JAVA WEBSERVICES BOOK which I read so far which demonstrates a WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE with all components together with working code. I am sure Java developers and architects will all get value out of this book because it provides the working content for building Web services using the J2EE platform by walking through the Web services development from architecture, design, implemention and deployment. Some of the key features of this book, you will learn and demonstrate are: - Building Web services from J2EE components
- Explore the JAX APIs - JAX-RPC, JAXM, SAAJ and JAXR with examples.
- Explore Java Web services interoperability with Microsoft .NET.
- Learn to build a real world Web services, putting all the JAX APIs together.
- Learn how to implement security for Web services.
- Learn how to develop Web services using Sun JWSDP, Apache Axis, BEA Weblogic, Microsoft .NET and IBM Web services Security kit. For my eyes, this book is a Java developer's companion for building Web services but not an "Idiot's Guide". So don't expect the book to teach you how to write the "Hello World" Java or teaching basics.
Rating:
Summary: Full of examples - a great tutorial
Review: The cover of this book says, "Timely. Practical. Reliable." and that is a good description of the book. It covers the current state of Java APIs for web services, it gives plenty of well thought out examples, and it provides enough information to actually make the alphabet soup of acronyms understandable. The book starts with an introduction to web services. The next section covers web services architecture and the standard technologies of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Interoperability with non-Java applications is demonstrated with a .NET example. The book is written by three Sun employees so it does tend to be a bit Sun-centric as the next sections shows. The Java Web Services Developers Pack (JWSDP) is given plenty of coverage. JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JAX-RPC, JAXR, may be just acronyms when you get this book but after reading the six chapters covering the JWSDP they will be technologies that you understand. A case study wraps up the six chapters putting the whole thing together. The book ends with a chapter on security and a look at Sun ONE. The book is full of examples demonstrating how to use each of these technologies. When you read a line such as, "The real fun is understanding how the EncryptDecrypt class works," you know you are dealing with authors who love code. For developing Java web services you will be hard pressed to find a better book than this one.
Rating:
Summary: Full of examples - a great tutorial
Review: The cover of this book says, "Timely. Practical. Reliable." and that is a good description of the book. It covers the current state of Java APIs for web services, it gives plenty of well thought out examples, and it provides enough information to actually make the alphabet soup of acronyms understandable. The book starts with an introduction to web services. The next section covers web services architecture and the standard technologies of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Interoperability with non-Java applications is demonstrated with a .NET example. The book is written by three Sun employees so it does tend to be a bit Sun-centric as the next sections shows. The Java Web Services Developers Pack (JWSDP) is given plenty of coverage. JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JAX-RPC, JAXR, may be just acronyms when you get this book but after reading the six chapters covering the JWSDP they will be technologies that you understand. A case study wraps up the six chapters putting the whole thing together. The book ends with a chapter on security and a look at Sun ONE. The book is full of examples demonstrating how to use each of these technologies. When you read a line such as, "The real fun is understanding how the EncryptDecrypt class works," you know you are dealing with authors who love code. For developing Java web services you will be hard pressed to find a better book than this one.
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