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Java Web Services Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

5 star:		(46)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

it might be a good beginner's book for understanding the basics of web services. When you start dealing with realworld web services architecture situations, all you get from this book is just how to make a simple hello-world JAXRPC, JAXM example working -- beyond that i had no more use of the book. The chapters on SOA, transactions, practical considerations, security are nothing but theoretical junk with no example proof. After browsing all the pages, I don't find anything which show how to build a working java Web services architecture. The word architecture is abused and does'nt make sense for this title.

This book isn't much better than freely available online documents on the same subjects. The book suffers from the usual problems of a book with so many authors--the material overlaps and doesn't present a single cohesive perspective.

This book is not at all practical. It has over explained individual topics to the extent that it is even confusing. It is the last book to be used for quick reference. Contents are of absolutely of no practical value. Go elsewhere if you want to learn to apply webservices. This book is quite useless to me and I am a very experienced J2EE architect.

This is clearly the book for architects and is not entry level. Any thoughts that a general audience would read this title are shattered by the end of chapter 2. A working knowledge of both Java and XML are a prerequisite. That said, I recommend this book for developers who quickly want to get rolling with web services. The authors waste no time in diving right in and giving developers the tools and hands-on experience that they crave. The book has good code examples and even screen snaps! Altogether, this book is a great way for developers to learn about web services.

Many other reviewers have said it, but I'll say it too: This book is not as polished as it could be. My biggest gripe is that the contents are not organized in a way that supposed to illustrate a web services architecture. The lack of a substantive code and missing illustration is a serious problem.

Section 1 and 3 was a huge disappointment, because it is just as terse as the official dox: Plenty on discussing on the unrealistic stuff, but missing on how to do the basics! And most of web services discussion is like reading a J2EE book with no sense of service oriented arcitecture. I was hoping for something beyond what's on the java.sun.com web site.

The book is full too much of overview and mostly dated now. (allowing for the fact that software evolves faster than books ;->) There is too much goofy stuff.

I tried using Java Web services pack and examples 'round about the same time couple of weeks ago it looks all examples in the book don't work in 1.2. Now I have to read the other tutorial and books around, so I don't have a very good basis for comparison. Bottom line: I don't recommend the book as a web services architecture or a reference of any sort.

Several members of our staff in India have purchased this book to help them get up to speed quickly on Web Services. While I have not read the book myself, I can say that they have been successful using it.

I purchased few books this year on Web services and the frustrating thing about the latest ones is that
they all seem to be talking about the same topics, this one
is no different. I was mislead by all these raving reviews!
There are certain parts of this book
that you could find in a standard J2EE book (lots available online for free), other sections such as JWS Pack apis are a waste of paper in my opinion (look at the tutorial, they did a good job!). This technology has changed so much over the last year and there are still books that cover JAX-RPC & JAXM enough already! Out of the whole book, there is only a handful of good chapters that I may benefit from, or ... maybe not.

This book does a good job at covering all of the web services specifications and principles behind them. I appreciate having lots of code that I can incorporate into projects I am working on.

I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a solid book on this topic.

The book has started a lot of controversy on several Yahoo Groups. I book this book two weeks back and was happy with the purchase. It covers everything I need and was recommended by my boss.

Several people at my company (wipro) purchased it also. Sample chapters are available on theserverside.com.

If you want to learn how to build state-of-the-art distributed Web applications, this book will explain XML Web Services in a comprehensive manner. It examines the architecture, protocols and practices you need to know to build Web-ready, distributed-object applications. This book helped me understand Web services and made it extremely clear. I simply adore it.