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Summary: One stop Java Web services book
Review: This is an ideal book - with the right mix of code, examples and detailed explanation of Web services technologies. Books with too much theory drown you with diagrams, whereas you want to hit it asap. I liked the explanations, especially with the wealth of code.After an extensive search, I found this is the only book which demonstrates a real world Web services architecture with code in action. It shows a live example of Web services - showing how to create, publish, locate and invoke web services using JAX APIs - JAX-RPC, SAAJ, JAXR etc. In addition, this book has a wealth of ready to use examples using Weblogic 7.0, Apache Axis 1.0, JWSDP 1.1, IBM Web services security kit and Microsoft .NET. The examples walksthrough from how to set up environment, implement code, ANT build scripts and finally how to deploy and execute them in the target environment. Overall I found this to be the best JAVA WEB SERVICES book on the market. It gives the reader the hands-on experience on all popular tools and Sun JAX APIs...from getting started to advanced examples.
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Summary: Ultimate book for developers
Review: This is an ultimate book to start developing Java Web services. The case study and examples provided in the book are very easy to understand and to refer for implementing Web services with J2EE. In addition to JAX APIs, it also covers developing using Weblogic and Axis APIs. This book helped me in building SOAP Web services from J2EE components using Weblogic and Axis. I recommend to everyone, who need a quick jumpstart for developing Web services using JWSDP or Weblogic or Axis. It's worth your money for the code and knowledge that you gain from it.
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Summary: Example oriented book
Review: This is by far the best book on Java web services published so far. Unlike other books this one doesn't waste any chapters with theoretical content. Almost all the chapters are covered in depth with examples. I especially like the fact that the book does not waste time on explaining the Sun Web services pack repeatedly. This book keeps the focus on web services technologies by doing the coding in a notepad like environment-where you write all the code, make mistakes, stumble, and in the process, learn. If you have a web services project to demonstrate this is a best companion to jump start your work.
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Summary: Nice!
Review: Very nice book. I have been following some great technolgies over the last 10 years. With Web services, I was overwhelmed with the bundle of various APIs, tools, standards, specifications that emerged. I picked up this book since it looked like the right fit for a hard core Java developer wanting to learn web services and I was right on.
I think the book is a great handbook for developers who want to program prototypes. I have reused lots of code from the examples, which showed me exactly how things need to be done. This is one of the only books I have seen that had a complete case study using things like UDDI and JAXR, which was the part that puzzled me the most. I am looking forward to more books by this trio. I like your style and clarity. Keep it up.
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Summary: Good examples and case study for Java Web services
Review: Web services is very interesting and it is the most talked topic in software development field. I have purchased two books on Web services and this one was the most comprehensive and got right to the point on how to build Java webservices (using Weblogic, Axis, JWSDP), and also shows to how consume them using even Microsoft .NET. This book has an excellent real-world case study which walksthrough how to develop and deploy complete web services with all Java API components showing all Web services components (SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) working together. This book is an excellent companion for Java developers who wish to develop web services using JWSDP, Axis and Weblogic.
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Summary: Ultimate source for Web Services using Java Technology
Review: While there are lot of books dealing with Web Services using Microsoft Technoligies, I was looking for a good book which would cover Web Services using Java. I found this book doing a good job to detail out Web Services development using Java.
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Summary: Excellent web services book!
Review: With 2 other web services books on my shelves, I think this book is the one that covers most topics and I consider it a great buy. It describes the basics of web services and covers advanced features which I was looking for.
+ Interoperability with .NET was something I was curious about and with this book I was able to follow step by step to successfully create a .NET client with my java service.
+ Security section was very well described with basics to more advanced topics.
+ JAX* Case study was well illustrated (although I haven't tried the code yet)
In addition, the authors have successfully produced enough diagrams and sample code to prove their point (yet again didn't run the code) Good job.
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