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  • Paperback: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Sams Publishing (May 12, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672325152
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672325151
  • Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA very elegant treatment of a complex topic, but shows its age
By Ammy_Evaluator on June 17, 2011
Format: Paperback
I've been reading books on Web Services recently, for a course that I'll be teaching, and chanced upon this little gem at the back of my bookshelf.

The author is highly articulate, and presents a rather fearsome topic in a very easy to read format. I read this cover to cover, while taking notes, in about 7 hours.

While this book will not transform the reader into a high power service developer, it is a very gentle introduction to the topic.

The ideal reader would be a developer starting off in the field, or a manager getting familiar with SOA concepts.

A lot of things work for this book:
1. It discusses key players in this arena (OASIS, WS-I, W3C)
2. It discusses key protocols and specifications (HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, TCP, SSL, etc.)
3. It touches on the promise of interoperability, while not shying away from the pitfalls of web services in general
4. It compares and contrasts web services with other remoting technologies (CORBA, RMI, DCOM)
5. It provides one of the best introductions to WSDL I've seen.

Unfortunately, eight years is an eternity in the field of Web Services, and large swaths of this book have not aged well (for instance, most of Part III, Building Web Services) and certain aspects are not covered at all (such as ReST). However, I found that what remained was still a worthwhile read.

Happy Reading!
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4.0 out of 5 starsServed me well as an introduction to web services.
By lighten_up_already2 VINE VOICE on June 1, 2006
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To get right to the point, this book is written in a very easy to read and accessable style, with just the right diagrams and illustrations in the right places to aid in understanding.

I've never programmed with web services, but I need to know the terminology and basically what it's all about. This book served me well in this capacity.

It is not a book that goes into detail as to exactly how to do programming. This book is not technology specific, but rather after spending the first half easing the reader into exactly what web services are and why they exist, shows at a high-level how they are created with several different common technology platforms.

Also, there is a chapter on real world web services so the reader can go out and see exactly what web services look like when they are deployed in the "real world".

If you've never programmed a web services application before, I seriously doubt that you'll be able to do it after reading this book, at least nothing more than a simple example application. And in that sense, the title is a bit misleading. Perhaps it should have been "Introduce yourself to web services in 24 hours."

So, I can see how a certain type of reader might be dissapointed, but this book is exactly what I needed when I needed it.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDiving into Web Services
By El-Cheapo on October 13, 2003
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As someone who knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about web services when I started, this book was the best of the 1/2 dozen titles I perused because it balanced high level understanding with the nitty-gritty and code examples. I found this book far most useful than titles such as 'Web Service: A Manager's Guide' and '.Net Web Services for Dummies'.
As someone who is not particularly technical, the code segments were still very useful in understanding what is going on. Without looking at a little code, understanding web services and its components becomes too esoteric. Why would you just describe an elephant when you can also provide a picture.
As someone who was just trying to understand web services and had no interest in comparing specific vendors' web services offerings, the chapters on commercial tools such as Apache Axis, Java, .NET, IBM Websphere and BEA Weblogic, and their specific pros/cons was not terribly interesting to me. But I could see how they would be valuable to an IT Professional.
The book does not really take 24 hours. Overall, I spent 9 intense hours working through this book to developing a good grasp of the technology. I recommend the opening chapters of 'Understanding .NET' by Chappell as a great supplement. Chappel gives great brief high-level descriptions on the components of web services and how they came about.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood Read of basics, some outdated parts
By SAPPRO - Phil on October 2, 2012
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Book is easy to read, good description but obviously this book was written in 2003, UDDI's registries figure prominently in the book but have pretty much been abandoned, after reading this book I recommend you quickly get up to speed on changes since this book was published but so far this was really the best book for someone getting started. As one other reviewer mentioned this will definetly get you up to speed on the concepts which is what it intends to do.

Good Read
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat reading
By Russell Cotter on December 16, 2003
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The "Teach Yourself" series has done little to impress me until the arrival of this book. XML-based web services are getting traction as a truly standard way of enabling the service-oriented systems architecture. An architecture where systems can be built to expose services in such a way as to make it easier to integrate enterprise systems has been built many times already, but always ending up with constraints related to programming language, operating system and hardware. This book provides a good introduction to XML-based web services components including XML schema, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP and HTML with a comparison to the past attempts including DCOM and CORBA. The code examples require some analysis but are pretty helpful once you've taken the time to decode the XML and the scenario examples / case studies provide an interesting context to see how XML-based web services can be applied.
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