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Java Web Services For Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer)

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This book has a random collection of topics. I cannot believe a publisher actually published it. It discusses DTDs and XSLTs in great detail while completely ignoring XML Schemas and SOAP basics. I absolutely decided to return the book when I found a section discussing viruses - specifically the ILOVEYOU virus. If Amazon provided a way to give this a negative rating, I would gladly do so.

Abstract: Delves deeply into the sophisticated topics such as SOAP, WSDl, JAX-RPC, and JAXM etc with 103 Live-code Programs!

Comprehensive coverage of the following things.
XML, DOM, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC), Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR, J2EE, Web services Security and Wireless Web Services.

This book is intended for experienced programmers. I take pleasure in reading this book. This book starts with an overview of the technologies presented in Java Web Service, and provides detailed description about XML, DTD, XSLT and DOM the key enabling technologies for web services. Then it describes the building blocks of Web Services SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Besides it also covers all the Java XML API's for the Web Services development. The case studies and the 103 Live-code programs elucidate all the details about the Java Web Services. This book also explores all the security issues such as Basic security issues, SSL, XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS, SAML, XACML and WS-Security in a comprehensive manner.

"Outstanding Book with comprehensive coverage of Java Web Services".

This book does not have any real-world examples. The specifications mentioned in this book are also dated. The content in this book is a little dated. For a current book on Web Services check out Java Web Services Architecture published by Morgan Kaufman.

I had a hard time reading this book. It is good in the sense that I got some of the code working pretty quickly, but once I started to ask WHY things worked, I was lost with the book.

I had no idea about Web Services before reading this book. The book presents detailed information - which almost works - for 5 different implementations of SOAP-based Web-Services Plattforms. After which the example is depending on one special - non open source - plattform. Porting the code to AXIS was not straigth forward because I could not find out what the different statements in the example did.

I hope the next book on Web Services provides more useful information.

This is the first book I've seen that gives more than trivial examples of JAX-RPC and JAXM from the Java Web Services Developer Pack. It also gives excellent coverage of configuring the Java WSDP reference implementation for JAXM messaging providers, which is poorly documented by Sun. I wish this book had been published 8 weeks earlier; it would have saved me a lot of angst.

As with most other Java Web services books, its main drawback is that it is overly ambitious: it covers XML, DOM, XSL, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, as well as Java WSDP, all in 700 pages. I would have preferred more in-depth coverage of Java WSDP. But it's still the best Java web services book I've seen.

I found this book to be outdated; the Web Services Developement Pack mentioned (ver 1.0), isn't available anymore. What's worse is that many of the tools used haven't been carried into the latest version. For example, the xrpcc tool has been replaced by wscompile and the deploytool doesn't fully support webservices like the old one did (at least according to the book). If you find a better Java Web Services book let me know, as I am still searching for something useful.

HG"j2ee_consultant":
I appreciate your feedback on the book, but did not understand why you pulled the reference to "Indian Companies". If you think Indian Companies lack attention to detail and quality, surely you aren't acquainted with the philosophies that drive the day-to-day operations of Indian companies of the likes of TCS, Infosys, etc. India has the largest number of IT/Software companies outside US with CMM Level 5 Quality Rating, a certification not achievable without great attention to details and quality.

So please get your facts and references straight, before you make such unwarranted comments about Indian companies, or any company for that matter.

And by the way, Deitel & Associates are a strictly American company, and have nothing to do with Indian companies.

Like other recent reviewers, this book was very hard to read as it had no useful explanations for the source codes e.g: Why they were written like that on a first place. I also think that these guys have strong affiliation with indian company. They are stink as this publisher never published good quality books (the content and the presentation). They tried to save pages by condensed the content of the book for each page. My life experience is that indian company is very stingy and it never pays attention to detail and presentation. I bought this book because it was the first book ever written in web services thwo years ago. Now there are much better books that this book about webservices such as: Service-Oriented Architecture : A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services by Thomas Erl and J2EE Web Services -- by Richard Monson-Haefel. I also had read these books.

I paid these books for AU$85 now it was US$6. Didn't this tell you something that the book is useless and rubbish and no one wants to but it. So they lowered the prices.

Written for Java programmers, this new book in the DEITEL Developer Series applies their signature LIVE-CODE approach to Java Web services. Every important concept is presented in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax highlighting, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 103 LIVE-CODE programs that contain over 13,000 lines of proven program code. Thanks to the world renowned Sean Santry, the brains behind the book, the information is presented in a way that, for me, made learning a passion. My nights were spent in front of the fireplace with a cup of java in hand, broadening my knowledge in Java more than I ever thought possible. There's no faster way for experienced Java programmers to master Web Services development!