.NET Web Services Solutions (Paperback)

by Kris Jamsa (Author) "Unlike most discussions of web services that begin with an examination of the underlying network protocols, this chapter sets aside the underlying details and lets..." (more)
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Product Description
Best-selling programming book author Kris Jamsa tackles the hottest new topic for .NET developers: the creation of web services for high-powered cross-platform application development. This solutions-oriented book gives you the background you need to understand the concept of web services and then quickly moves into showing you how to publish and consume web services. You learn to how to use existing web services, how to make your .NET web service available to others, how to connect a web service to a database, and how to secure a web service. There is also special advanced coverage of creating mobile solutions and improving the performance of your web services. The book contains plenty of code examples that you can implement in your own applications, including web services that can be consumed by other languages, such as PHP and Perl.

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.NET Web Services Solutions offers just what its title states: practical solutions to the real challenges you face as you use .NET to create applications that communicate with web services and-more to the point-to build and deploy web services of your own. By the time you're done, you'll understand how the web services platform works, because chapter by chapter you get all the hands-on instruction, detailed examples, and inside advice you need to make your project succeed.

For example, you'll learn to connect to a database using ADO.NET operations, carry out the exchange of binary files, and extend the reach of your web service so that it touches e-mail, fax machines, mobile devices, and remote PCs. You'll master techniques for making your web service available to other programs-but you'll also discover ways to control its availability through authentication and encryption.

Kris Jamsa's expert coverage goes above and beyond, providing advanced optimization tips, including instructions for implementing asynchronous operations. He also shows you a neat trick for calling a web service from within an HTML page using JavaScript. Want an even neater trick? Check out the section on making money with your web service, where you'll find a billing model that will work for you. The final chapter brings it all together, walking you through a cohesive, highly functional example of an employment web service.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (March 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782141722
• ISBN-13: 978-0782141726
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,342,977 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rather inane, November 22, 2005

By	Gregory A. Beamer "Cowboy" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am sure there is a place for every type of book, but knowing this does not make me like certain types of books any more. This book is largely a cookbook type of book although that is not the way in which it is presented.

If you need to learn technology by slowly building on different commercial services and your own examples, this book could be your ticket. If you are enough of a beginner that passing an array in and then out of a web service requires two explanations (which is then built with an example on passing a structure and then calling a service from a service), this is your kind of book.

Let's be frank. A web service is an interface to software, generally remote, that uses SOAP as its transport. This is an oversimplification, but an understanding of web services as interfaces would go much farther than a bunch of examples passing different data types or a plethora of examples of using commercial services (google, amazon, etc.).

To be fair, there is some good introductory material of what goes on behind the scenes (XML intro, etc.), but it is completely overshadowed by the author's personal mental musings. In the end, the book is more of a "how I do web services" rather than "what are web services and how do you use them."

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, August 16, 2003

By	Adlai Maschiach @ NESS (Tel-Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews

OK, so this time Sybex's book is better then O'reilly's.
Yes it is. The Oreilly's book was a bit too concise and MS Press building XML web services was nice.
But still this is my choice.

I haven't finished reading any of which, but this one I use as the main reference for my 'how-to' books.

BUT, a few things were missing which I found in other books , among other is how to create an Web Service Interface ( as in 'Class' ) which Oreilly's .NET Component Programming has a sample of.

If you want .NET Web Services my list is this book; Oreilly's .NET Component Programming and MS Press .NET Distributed Applications. Each Contributes to the entire picture.

Why four stars? well we shouldn't buy three books to get the entire picture ( perhaps the MS Press Programming XML Web Services is better , I have't read it yet )