Programming Web Services with SOAP (Paperback)

by James Snell (Author), Doug Tidwell (Author), Pavel Kulchenko (Author)
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Product Description
The web services architecture provides a new standard for building distributed Web-based applications across a network. Programming Web Services with SOAP is a detailed guide to using the leading web services standards, including SOAP (Simple Open Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Service Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration protocol). You'll learn the concepts of the web services architecture and get practical acvice on building and deploying web services in the enterprise. This authoritative book decodes the standards, explaining the concepts and implementation in a clear, concise style. You'll also learn about the major toolkits for building and deploying web services. Examples in Java, Perl, C#, and Visual Basic illustrate the principles. Significant applications developed using Java and Perl on the Apache Tomcat web platform address real issues such as security, debugging, and interoperability. Programming Web Services with SOAP provides you with all the information on the standards, protocols, and toolkits you'll need to integrate information services with SOAP. You'll find a solid core of information that will help you develop individual Web services or discover new ways to integrate core business processes across an enterprise.

About the Author
James Snell is a member of IBM's emerging software technologies team where his work is dedicated to the evolving Web services architecture.

Doug Tidwell is a senior programmer at IBM. He has more than a sixth of a century of programming experience, and has been working with markup languages for more than a decade. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has taught XML classes around the world. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to look busy and to help people use new technologies to solve problems. Using a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers, he holds a master's degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Georgia. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, cooking teacher Sheri Castle (see her web site at http://www.sheri-inc.com) and their daughter Lily.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596000952
• ISBN-13: 978-0596000950
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #337,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing and thin, August 16, 2002

By	Stephen J. Friedl (Tustin, California USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book was a disappointment. I got thrown into an XML/SOAP project and had to get up to speed in short order. After struggling on my own for a while I bought this book hoping it would have lots of meat on actually using SOAP::Lite, but it had pretty thin coverage.

I did like the big-picture overview of the various technologies, but it was not very helpful in writing an actual SOAP client to talk to a third party's SOAP server. Considering that the author of SOAP::Lite also wrote this book, it seems to me that there could have been a whole chapter on SOAP::Lite from the client view.

This will stay on my shelf as a reference, but for getting up to speed rapidly on actually writing a SOAP client, it was a bust.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cannot believe this an O'Reilly Title......., March 1, 2002

By	Mr. Michael E. Smithson "msmitty" (Novi, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I usually give preference to O'Reilly's books when looking to purchase a book on a certain programming technology. O'Reilly is generally ahead of the pack in terms of writing style, author's reputation, and knowledge of the subject. Unfortunately, I have little to no confidence in the knowledge of the authors in this book just from reading and trying out the introductory examples on SOAP::Lite in PERL. It starts off with the trivial "Hello World" example of writing a SOAP server and a client. The authors didn't even get this one right! Already threre are errata submitted for this example on the oreilly.com site. I couldn't believe it! I mean, if you cannot get the "Hello World" example right, then what confidence do I have in the authors of presenting something more complex?

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice introduction, December 6, 2002

By	Wilfred Springer (Tricht, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need.
If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want.
If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need.