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XML Index - XML Book :
Professional XML Web Services
by Vivek Chopra, Zaev Zoran, Gary Damschen, Chris Dix, Patrick Cauldwell, Rajesh Chawla, Kristy Saunders, Glenn Olander, Francis Norton, Tony Hong, Uche Ogbuji, Mark A. Richman Perfect Paperback - 1000 pages 1st edition (September 2001) Wrox Press Inc ISBN: 1861005091 Dimensions (in inches): 1.72 x 8.94 x 7.22 Amazon.com: Whatever your favorite programming language, Professional XML Web Services does a good job at explaining recent technologies and tools needed to understand and use Web services. Whether you are a developer or an IT manager, this book's wide-ranging perspective on some late-breaking standards and tools will help you design and code the next generation of Web applications. The strong cross-language perspective is what distinguishes this title from the rest of the pack. The book surveys actual tools for developing Web services in C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Microsoft's new C# language (part of .NET). Short chapters survey what's out there for Web services developers, with options from IBM, Sun, HP, and Microsoft. If you are somehow convinced that one vendor has a head start with Web services, you'll think again after reading this volume. The heart of this text is its thorough and approachable tour of core standards needed for Web services, from the innards of SOAP for sending messages between systems over HTTP or other protocols, to WSDL for describing Web services and UDDI for looking them up at run-time. The book does a good job at fixing a very fast moving target. (SOAP 1.1 is used here instead of the emerging 1.2 standard.) Besides the new .NET (and ADO.NET) on the Microsoft platform, there's also coverage of the older SOAP Toolkit 2.0. Sections on using Perl and Python will help bring fans of these popular Web development languages onboard with Web services. The authors conclude with two larger case studies, an interesting remote file system exposed through Web services using Java, plus an auction database done in the new C#. Anchoring the discussion in what are sure to be the two most popular choices for Web services development helps ensure this text has a practical focus, too. With its range of coverage of what Web services are and the actual standards and tools used to implement them, this title is a perfect choice for learning what all the fuss is about. It's all anyone needs to start designing and coding with Web services using many of today's most popular programming languages and tools. --Richard Dragan Book Description: Web Services are self-describing, modular applications. The Web Services architecture can be thought of as a wrapper for the application code. This wrapper provides standardized means of: describing the Web Service and what it does; publishing it to a registry, so that it can easily be located; and exposing an interface, so that the service can be invoked - all in a machine-readable format. What is particularly compelling about Web Services is that they can be accessed by any client that... Customer Reviews Reviewer: Randal Burgess from Chicago, IL United States This book is another quality edition to the Wrox library. If you are thinking about buying this book, make sure you have some knowledge about XML, since the authors don't delve too much into the basics of XML. However, XML is a huge piece of the Web Services mix. Be ready to learn some new tech jargon and to memorize and decipher a plethora of acronyms (SOAP, UDDI, XML, etc.) but Web Services are very likely the future of distributed programming, so the knowledge is very valuable no matter how long it takes you to figure it all out. The only other possible downer about this book is that some of the specifications the authors detail are not full recommendations by the W3C and are subject to change...but my take is that after you learn the technology once, the changes you will see with final drafts are not drastic enough to require further learning. Reviewer: A reader from Milwaukee, WI United States This is the first of what promises to be a slew of new books coming out on Web Services. As the first book out I guess it's what you'd expect from a book rushed to press. The examples are frequently flawed. If you're already familiar with most of the technology, or you're willing to read the documentation of the WSTK and various Apache documents along with this book you'll find this book a good primer. However, if you're new don't go for this book. The examples tend to be a mixed jumble flowing from COM, Java, NET and even Perl occasionally with in the same example. If you're planning on using all those technologies (and have them all set up) you might be ok. However, if you just want to build a Java webservice, well this isn't the book for you. Reviewer: A reader from Detroit, MI USA This is a pretty good anthology about web services, with a number of different topics covered in depth. I like that you can read just a chapter about a subject of interest without having to read the whole book up to that point. At 1000 pages, I wouldn't want to read the whole book from beginning to end anyway. However, it is uneven. There are some good chapters about SOAP, but other chapters, for example, UDDI, are not so good. Reviewer: kjackson1997 from Silicon Valley This is a terribly written book. If you look at the cover, you'll see 12 different authors, and basically, that's about how it reads. It feels like each section was written by different authors, and the editors just cut and pasted all the sections into a book. There is no flow and no continuity between them. They continuously redefine the same things over and over again. In the middle of the book, they redefine things that have been already defined in previous chapters. For example, in one of the sections, they write: "When using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)..." Do they really need to tell us AGAIN what SOAP stands for? Basically, don't buy this book. It is poorly written, and it offers no real information about Web Services. |
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