Professional Java Web Services [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Scott Cable (Author), Ben Galbraith (Author), Romin Irani (Author), Mack Hendricks (Author), James Milbury (Author), Tarak Modi (Author), Andre Tost (Author), Alex Toussaint (Author), Jeelani Basha (Author)

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Product Description
Web Services is a major area for growth in the programming industry. Indeed Microsoft have staked their company on it, completely re-engineering the Windows platform for this purpose. In the Java world, a system for distributed, highly scalable, maintainable enterprise systems is already in place. The software engineer must merely add an additional layer, that of Web Services, in order to enable implementation independent cross application communication for distributed applications. This also means simpler enterprise application integration (EAI) through standard models for publishing, discovering, and binding to Web Services. This book teaches the core standards for Web Services today including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, giving practical advice on implementing Web Services in enterprise applications.

What does this book cover?

Architecture for web services
SOAP and Apache SOAP 2.2
Web Service fundamentals (WSDL and UDDI)
Web Service-enabling existing J2EE applications
SAP and web services
Web services security
JAXM, JAXRPC, and JAXR
Introductions to SunONE and AXIS

From the Publisher
Professional Web Services concisely explains the important technologies and specifications behind web services. The book outlines the architecture of web services, and the latest information on implementing web services. The book assumes a good knowledge of Java and XML.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861003757
• ISBN-13: 978-1861003751
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,351,592 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Wrox product....., April 3, 2002

By	Mr. D. S. Stadler (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Wrox books tend to occupy a particular niche in the market. Wrox' strategy seems to be to be early into the marketplace with a book on a bleeding edge topic. Their 'Early Adopter' series is particularly aimed at this market, but so are many of their books. If something is wrong or superceded, Wrox will publish another book on the same topic, usually a bunch more books on the topic.

Wrox also tends to publish books with many authors. This makes their books spotty, though in theory it ensures expert knowledge of a wide range of topics. In practice I don't find it so. Certain chapters in any Wrox book will be effectively unusable.

The speed comes at a price in terms of proofreading and to the useful life of the books they publish. When I purchase a Wrox book I know what I'm getting. It's a book with a short useful life which will help get me started quickly on bleeding edge topics at the cost of some frustration and skullsweat.

Typically I will replace a Wrox book later on my learning curve when O'Reilly and other more careful publishers come out with their books. There is a place for books like these. Even if they aren't 100% accurate, they are timely and are rarely completely useless. I usually don't recommend them for beginning technologists for that reason.

This book was useful when I bought it but has now almost reached it's sell-by date.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Does Wrox employ proofreaders?, March 1, 2002

By	Computer Nut "cnut" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

Perhaps my expectations are too great, but what I look for in a book is the ability to learn something by following reasonable instructions. This book's source code is pretty good and plentiful... but read on.

Where the trouble comes in is when you actually try to follow the setup and execution steps. Such a case is in the beginning of the book when one is supposedly shown how to configure Tomcat, SOAP and their related libraries... oh, and the wrong URLs. Do yourself a favor: just tear the pages out. Even when you get to the point where your first web service is deployed, you still can't get around the error messages until you do something which the book should most certainly have warned the reader about: restart Tomcat.

Look, I'm no expert, and this is the reason why I bought the book. In all fairness, it's likely that someone from Wrox will actually go through the steps himself and bang his head on the desk enough so that the second edition will deserve more credence in its instruction.

It was probably too late for the Java Web Services Developer Pack to be included in the book, so don't buy this book if you intend to focus on the pack, unless you're lucky enough to know the significant differences. Sorry gang, but this book went to the press prematurely.

Other than that, I still recommend it, with the aforementioned caveats having been considered. Wrox: replace your proofreaders... pleeeeeeez. I'm sure that the authors meant well and I still managed to learn quite a lot.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good breadth, bad depth on Java Web Services, September 20, 2002

By	J. Balderas - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a good book to familiarizing on how to implement web services using Java. What I found most valuable about this book is the coverage of AXIS, CapeStudio, SAP and J2EE.
As most other Web Services books, the chapters on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and Web Services Security are very general and take up half of the book. If you're already familiar with these concepts these chapters are useless. Also as most web services related technologies are quickly evolving I would find this book quite outdated today.