.NET Web Services Solutions [Paperback]

Kris Jamsa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0782141722 | ISBN-13: 978-0782141726 | Edition: 1

.NET Web Services Solutions offers just what its title states: practical solutions to the real challenges you face as you use .NET to create applications that communicate with web services and--more to the point--to build and deploy web services of your own. By the time you're done, you'll understand how the web services platform works, because chapter by chapter you get all the hands-on instruction, detailed examples, and inside advice you need to make your project succeed.

For example, you'll learn to connect to a database using ADO.NET operations, carry out the exchange of binary files, and extend the reach of your web service so that it touches e-mail, fax machines, mobile devices, and remote PCs. You'll master techniques for making your web service available to other programs--but you'll also discover ways to control its availability through authentication and encryption.

Kris Jamsa's expert coverage goes above and beyond, providing advanced optimization tips, including instructions for implementing asynchronous operations. He also shows you a neat trick for calling a web service from within an HTML page using JavaScript. Want an even neater trick? Check out the section on making money with your web service, where you'll find a billing model that will work for you. The final chapter brings it all together, walking you through a cohesive, highly functional example of an employment web service.

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From the Back Cover

.NET Web Services Solutions offers just what its title states: practical solutions to the real challenges you face as you use .NET to create applications that communicate with web services and—more to the point—to build and deploy web services of your own. By the time you’re done, you’ll understand how the web services platform works, because chapter by chapter you get all the hands-on instruction, detailed examples, and inside advice you need to make your project succeed.

For example, you’ll learn to connect to a database using ADO.NET operations, carry out the exchange of binary files, and extend the reach of your web service so that it touches e-mail, fax machines, mobile devices, and remote PCs. You’ll master techniques for making your web service available to other programs—but you’ll also discover ways to control its availability through authentication and encryption.

Kris Jamsa’s expert coverage goes above and beyond, providing advanced optimization tips, including instructions for implementing asynchronous operations. He also shows you a neat trick for calling a web service from within an HTML page using JavaScript. Want an even neater trick? Check out the section on making money with your web service, where you’ll find a billing model that will work for you. The final chapter brings it all together, walking you through a cohesive, highly functional example of an employment web service.

About the Author

Kris Jamsa is a very experienced author having written more than a 100 computer books. Kris has also run his own publishing company and therefore has a name that is very familiar to many of the buyers at key accounts. Some of his best-selling programming books include 1001 Visual Basic Tips and Instant Palm OS Applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (March 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782141722
• ISBN-13: 978-0782141726
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,893,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rather inane, November 22, 2005

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Gregory A. Beamer "Cowboy" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: .NET Web Services Solutions (Paperback)

I am sure there is a place for every type of book, but knowing this does not make me like certain types of books any more. This book is largely a cookbook type of book although that is not the way in which it is presented.

If you need to learn technology by slowly building on different commercial services and your own examples, this book could be your ticket. If you are enough of a beginner that passing an array in and then out of a web service requires two explanations (which is then built with an example on passing a structure and then calling a service from a service), this is your kind of book.

Let's be frank. A web service is an interface to software, generally remote, that uses SOAP as its transport. This is an oversimplification, but an understanding of web services as interfaces would go much farther than a bunch of examples passing different data types or a plethora of examples of using commercial services (google, amazon, etc.).

To be fair, there is some good introductory material of what goes on behind the scenes (XML intro, etc.), but it is completely overshadowed by the author's personal mental musings. In the end, the book is more of a "how I do web services" rather than "what are web services and how do you use them."

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, August 16, 2003

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Adlai Maschiach @ NESS (Tel-Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Web Services Solutions (Paperback)

OK, so this time Sybex's book is better then O'reilly's.
Yes it is. The Oreilly's book was a bit too concise and MS Press building XML web services was nice.
But still this is my choice.

I haven't finished reading any of which, but this one I use as the main reference for my 'how-to' books.

BUT, a few things were missing which I found in other books , among other is how to create an Web Service Interface ( as in 'Class' ) which Oreilly's .NET Component Programming has a sample of.

If you want .NET Web Services my list is this book; Oreilly's .NET Component Programming and MS Press .NET Distributed Applications. Each Contributes to the entire picture.

Why four stars? well we shouldn't buy three books to get the entire picture ( perhaps the MS Press Programming XML Web Services is better , I have't read it yet )