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Summary: Important book about Web Services!
Review: Web services, the new way of stitching data and processing resources together to form elaborate, distributed applications, aren't like other software systems. They differ even from other architectures for distributed applications. This book is better than any other book out there in helping readers come to grips with the terms, technologies, behaviors, and design requirements that define the Web services universe.For an architect or manager who has the responsibility of planning the future EAI strategic direction for the company this book provides an honest basis to make well informed decisions e.g. does one move towards ebXML now or wait, or choose SOAP, WSDL, UDDI as they appear to be heading. No book can be all things to all people and where the authors have thought appropriate they have referred the reader to further reading. I recommend this book for all Republicans in California.
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Summary: A True Architecture Focused Book!
Review: This book delivers what the authors intended to deliver which is valuable discussions around the pros and cons of the current Web Services technologies and what architects need to understand as they make systems architecture decisions with their Web Services implementations. This book is broader than the concrete examples that show the individual technologies in use. It is important to show these, but what is more important, in my opinion, is the accompanying sections that discuss the design tradeoffs when using the particular technologies that every good architect needs to be cognizent of if they are truly doing their job. Yes, the content is Sun implementation focused but insightful readers will get over their biases (for or against!) and just see these sections as concrete examples of the standards/technologies at work. Highly Recommended!
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Summary: Finally a good book on Web Services
Review: There are lots of books on web services on the market that are pure garbage. This book is finally worthy of spending money to obtain knowledge of topics such as UDDI, service-oriented architectures and the JAX APIs. After receiving raving reviews from my friends who work for Walt Disney, MetLife, Alcoa and Bristol Myers Squibb I purchased a copy for myself & boss and was not disappointed
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Summary: Jealousy Patterns
Review: I have read many of the reviews on this book and have made several conclusions. 1. All of the negative feedback on the book surrounding UDDI and JWSDP make up a total of six pages of the book. I guess this means the rest of it is worth buying. 2. It seems as if this book is being purchased strictly by those who work for large Fortune 500 companies and the consulting firms that serve them. 3. All of the 1 star reviews seem to be posted by a single individual who is jealous of Sun employees. Curious if he/she was recently fired for being incompetent? 4. No one likes the CD. I agree with this point. Might make the book price cheaper if it were removed? 5. All of the bad reviews seem to be posted by the same reviewers of books on homosexuality and devil worship. 6. There are several perspectives on Apache code. I hold the opinion that its inclusion is good for the fact that it represents the best example on the market today. Some reviewers may prefer that authors reinvent the wheel. My own two cents. This book will become dated over time. I think all books on web services will. But the fact remains, this is the most current book on web services and therefore worthy of purchase.
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Summary: Top Web Services book in Corporate America
Review: If you are a buyer of books that likes to complain over minor grammatical errors and code formatting then skip this book. If you like to learn about both development and architecture of web services using Java then this is the book for you. I have heard this book was being adopted as a corporate standard by Fortune 100 organizations including: Southwest Airlines, FedEx, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, Exxon Mobil, Northwestern Mutual, DuPont and Nestle. The quality of the content speaks to why this book has sold more copies than all other web services book combined.
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Summary: Great Stuff!
Review: This book is not your standard technical discussion of Java Web Services. The introductory chapters set a framework for looking at Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. I've found the concepts and verbiage within these chapters to be very useful when explaining what SOA and Web Services are all about to non-technical people. The technical half of the book jumps directly to architecture. Some of this section is standard stuff and some of it discusses very unconventional approaches. An architect who jumps directly to the technical portion will be disappointed. The introductory chapters provide a context that the technical sections need to be viewed in. Managers should read the first half of the book. Architects need to read the whole book. The book challenges architects. Some of the insights and opinions are radically out of the box. You may love them or hate them, but you will think about how you architect SOA and Web Services. This is not an architecture task cookbook. It's an architecture educational text.
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Summary: Do you need a companion?
Review: I picked up a copy of this book at SoftPro and was pleased with the purchase. The authors state as one of their goals in the preface the goal of being technology neutral. Normally, one would expect Sun employees to only show interoperability with other Sun products, but this is not the case. They show interoperability with vendor offerings from Systinet, The Mind Electric and BEA. The UDDI chapter demonstrates Java code in conjunction with Microsoft technologies. This mirrors the deployment scenarios of most large organizations today. Books that hint towards homogeneous infrastructures are interesting but not practical. The Sun API's that many reviewers have commented on are really such a small part of the book as to not be worth mentioning. There are gems spread throughout the book. My only complaint is the CD. This should be eliminated.
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Summary: This book is hot!
Review: I had the opportunity to meet the author while flying back home to Trinidad. We discussed usage of web services and how they could help with a project I am working on. He even convinced me to consider to offer a course at our university on the subject. He is knowledgable and I hope he will visit our country again.
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Summary: Good book for Java Web Services
Review: I have just received my copy after being on the wait list for a little while. I have been progamming with Java for a while but am new to web servies. The book includes a wealth of information and great detail on using developing web services with Java. In general, this is a focused and well-written book. Others may be interested in the general XML introduction, XSL detail etc. You wont find that in here. It assumes some knowledge of XML. I was happy with the chapters that I chose to read.
Not a bad buy... Worth the money.
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Summary: Good coverage of important web services topics
Review: If you ask five people to define Web Services, you'll probably get at least six answers. Furthermore, this is the only book that got the definition exactly right. This book is selling lots of copies and for good reason. It has been adopted by architects of multiple Fortune 100 organizations.
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