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Summary: Service Orientated section is really good
Review: Service Orientated chapter in book alone is worth the price of the book. Not all organizations will be developing web services. For those who want to learn not only about SOAP/XML but how to solve for integration problems, then SOA is the road to the future.The author who wrote the JAXR chapter also should be commended as it explains in great detail about accessing both registries and repositories. Also enjoyed the SOAP chapter. This book is a bargain at its price.
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Summary: Book needs a revision
Review: This book disappointed me with belated material and using older java implementations. The content and examples needs lot of updates and confusing the readers. The book suggested website www.webservicesarchitecture.com is not working at all. I find no response from the publisher and author as well.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I am involved in a project to determine the best practices for integrating web services into our applications. We purchased a handful of recommended books on the topic including this one. I have to say that I am disappointed in this book.
First off there is little coverage of web services from an architecture point of view. There are some decent chapters that introduce the concepts of web services and SOA and then the authors jump directly into reference mode on the dozen or so technologies that they think you must master to develop web services.
Maybe it is just a failure of the J2EE process, but this book does little to address the confusion and complexity involved with developing web services in Java. In fact this book just adds to the problem. Developers should not need to know all the details of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and all the JAX APIs in order to develop web services. For the most part, all this plumbing technology should be hidden from developers yet it is the focus of this book.
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Summary: Book needs a revision
Review: Java Web Services Architecture addresses the most difficult aspects of web services including security, registries, components, reliable messaging, and long-lived loosely coupled asynchronous transactions. These are the concepts of web services that the experts agree will ultimately be the most important, but for which the standards, protocols, and tools are not yet fully baked. The authors explain these missing-piece challenges, describes the ultimate solutions, and helps the reader develop a web-services architecture for their organization.
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