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Professional Java SOAP

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Sorry Bequet but this book is lacking. These books are to expensive to not provide the necessary content to teach a topic.
There are many things that make this book not worth the money. The sample source code used throughout the book is hardly readable. Taking a little time to write readable code goes a long way when trying to teach a topic. There is at least a couple of chapters dedicated to the example application used in the book. These chapters do not address Soap as much as they address the sample application. There was obviously not enough real content to address the topic so there is tons of fluff. There are much better ways of teaching a topic like using Soap with Java without letting all of the other stuff get in the way.

With Amazon there is no ability to sit in a book store and read a book. These reviews from other readers are all we have to go by. In my honest opinion the book is not worth the price. If you are looking to learn Java and Soap I would recommend waiting for a better book.

The author tries to explain various key concepts of SOAP through one project that spans the whole book. Apache SOAP is used as the software of choice to build the project. Both of which did not appeal to me because:
a. Apache is shifting focus to Axis from Apache SOAP.
b. Concepts are better explained through short examples than through a project that would sometimes make the users feel lost.

This was my first SOAP book, and I thought it was an excellent piece of work by Monsieur Bequet.

I think it was written rapidly, and by the time I found it the software versions had changed. This can be a big problem in cutting-edge topics, but it is not fair to judge either author or publisher as harshly as many seem to be doing here.

I would like to see a second edition and am looking forward to his next book.

Objective, Easy to read and to understand, but some examples have errors, the Tomcat version is too old and do not cover the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP).

Objective, Easy to read and to understand, but some examples have errors, the Tomcat version is too old and do not cover the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP).

This was the first book I had bought for my endeavor into the world of SOAP. Having read first few chapters it became quite apparent that either the author didn't have good knowledge about the subject matter or did a mediocre job to write this book in a hurry so that he can cash in on this craze of new technology. The sample codes are hard to comprehend meaning one may not understand the code at the first glance. The subject matter depicted in a inconsistent and incoherent manner. The book lacks any kind of structure.

SOAP is the basis for new technologies driving interoperable distributed applications. To understand these new applications called Web Services you need to have a good understanding of how to programme using SOAP. This book does exactly that, and uses the Apache SOAP v2.2 to get the job done. It goes through the protocol semantics, how it compares to technologies of the old (CORBA, RMI), how to get max performance out of your system and much more.