The Java Web Services Tutorial [Paperback]

Eric Armstrong (Author), Stephanie Bodoff (Author), Debbie Carson (Author), Maydene Fisher (Author), Dale Green (Author), Kim Haase (Author)

Book Description

Series: Java Series | Publication Date: March 15, 2002

Following in the successful tradition of previous Java Series Tutorials, The JavaaA A TM Web Services Tutorial, Early Access Edition, offers an essential, example-driven resource for every programmer interested in developing and deploying web services and web applications with the Java WSDP. The authors - senior documentation specialists at Sun - offer a concise, all-in-one guide covering the key technologies for building Web services using the Java 2 Platform. They provide practical techniques and examples for working with JavaaA A (tm) Servlets, JSPaA A TM, JSTL and the Java XML Pack to get programmers up to speed. This tutorial is packed with practical examples to reinforce key concepts. Both the tutorial and Sun Microsystems' Web Services Pack are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

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From the Back Cover

The Java™ Web Services Tutorial is a comprehensive, example-driven, "roll up your sleeves and dive in" guide to building Web services applications with Java™ technology. This edition provides a head start on using the Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP) from Sun Microsystems. This complete, ready-to-use package includes a variety of technologies and tools required to build and deploy comprehensive Web services applications today.

Web services offer powerful new ways for enterprises to effectively communicate with each other using diverse computing hardware. This paradigm takes the Java platform's "Write Once, Run Anywhere™" capabilities to a new level by providing a completely portable data model. By supporting the latest standards for XML-based Web services, the Java APIs for XML make it easy to build Web services with minimal hand tweaking of data. This tutorial explains these APIs in detail and provides practical examples to reinforce your understanding of key concepts.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes:

Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) 1.0 EA 1

Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.2 EA 1 (with XML Schema support)

Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 EA 1

Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.0 EA 1

JavaServer Pages™ Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.0 EA 3

Ant Build Tool 1.4.1

Java WSDP Registry Server 1.0 EA 1

Tomcat Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages container 4.1-dev

This package also includes instructions for deploying Web services applications on the Java 2 SDK, Enterprise Edition.

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About the Author

Stephanie Bodoff is a staff writer at Sun Microsystems. In previous positions she worked as a software engineer on distributed computing and telecommunications systems and object-oriented software development methods. Since her conversion to technical writing, Stephanie has documented object-oriented databases, application servers, and enterprise application development methods.

Maydene Fisher, a native of San Jose, California, specializes in object-oriented languages. She has experience spanning both coasts of the United States, having documented everything from complex financial models on Wall Street to Java APIs in Silicon Valley.

Dale Green is a staff writer with Sun Microsystems, where he documents the J2EE platform. In previous positions he programmed business applications, designed databases, taught technical classes, and documented RDBMS products. In his current position he writes about Enterprise JavaBeans technology and the J2EE SDK.

Kim Haase is a staff writer with Sun Microsystems, where she documents the J2EE platform. In previous positions she has documented compilers, debuggers, and floating-point programming. She currently writes about the Java Message Service and J2EE SDK tools.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education (March 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201768119
• ISBN-13: 978-0201768114
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,477,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it: Save yourself some confusion, June 14, 2002

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Mr. D. S. Stadler (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Java Web Services Tutorial (Paperback)

I bought the EA1 edition through Foyles bookstore. Unfortunately the EA1 edition is massively out of sync with the current FCS version of the software, and the Cd didn't contain the examples (or at least not where the book said they were).

So I ended up downloading the examples. The build.xml files in the download are laughably different from the book, and several steps need to be taken which the book mentions nothing of.

It's a major shame since the book looked very good. But I completely wasted my £38 and have wound up using the (confusing) online tutorial.

Apparently a FCS version of the book is coming out in several months. Wait for it. Assuming that they haven't changed version yet again it should be a good book. Right now it is a waste of money.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Terse, April 12, 2002

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B. K. Lau (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Java Web Services Tutorial (Paperback)

This book is basically a packaging of Java XML EAE packages of what you can download from the Sun's JavaSoft site.
After skimping thru it briefly, it appears to be very terse and I'm not sure if it can be said as a helpful "tutorial" as such for any beginning/intermediate Java Web Service learner other than showing what EAE(Early Access Edition) is all about.
This book in my opinion needs to be evolved into 3 volumes:
1) Basic XML parsing(SAX, JDOM)
2) XML Schema & Java mappings
3) Java Web Services implementation framework(HTTP, Servlet,RMI,etc).

My verdict is this book is not worth its weight and price at the moment.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why not just read these pages on line, May 19, 2002

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Steve Loughran - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Java Web Services Tutorial (Paperback)

I feel sorry for sun: they have to give away so much for java to succeed, and their direct java revenue must come from J2ee licensees, JCP membership fees and books. This book is a dead-tree of the online JWSDP tutorial, with the benefit that you can read it while off line, the disadvantage that you pay for the privilege. Either way, I dont think it is that good a tutorial; it covers the Sun way of thinking, but doesnt get into the details of interop problems, maybe because SUNW dont seem to be participating in the SoapBuilders interop fests. Interoperability is the bane of and key to the success of web services, and if all you are doing is taking existing EJB beans and turning them into web services, you arent building a real web service. If you are using the Axis framework, there are better books, like the SAMS press one. No doubt something great will come along for the Sun product, but this is not, yet, it.