Java Web Services Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by James McGovern, Michael Stevens, Sameer Tyagi

Book Overview

Written by industry thought leaders, Java Web Services Architecture is a no-nonsense guide to web services technologies including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and the JAX APIs. This book is useful for systems... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558609008
• ISBN13: 9781558609006
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Web Services made understandable

If you want to learn how to build state-of-the-art distributed Web applications, this book will explain XML Web Services in a comprehensive manner. It examines the architecture, protocols and practices you need to know to build Web-ready, distributed-object applications. This book helped me understand Web services and made it extremely clear. I simply adore it.

Mandatory Reading for Agile Developers

Several members of our staff in India have purchased this book to help them get up to speed quickly on Web Services. While I have not read the book myself, I can say that they have been successful using it.

Saga of the IT industry

The book has started a lot of controversy on several Yahoo Groups. I book this book two weeks back and was happy with the purchase. It covers everything I need and was recommended by my boss.Several people at my company (wipro) purchased it also. Sample chapters are available on theserverside.com.

Building block for distributed systems

This is clearly the book for architects and is not entry level. Any thoughts that a general audience would read this title are shattered by the end of chapter 2. A working knowledge of both Java and XML are a prerequisite. That said, I recommend this book for developers who quickly want to get rolling with web services. The authors waste no time in diving right in and giving developers the tools and hands-on experience that they crave. The book has good code examples and even screen snaps! Altogether, this book is a great way for developers to learn about web services.

This book is pragmatic and practical

I took the suggestion of another reviewer here and purchased a total ten copies from various online booksellers and distributed it to my direct reports so that they could develop a comprehensive understanding of how Web Services will work for solving IT issues we have been experiencing and to gain advantage over our competitors.Coming from a non-technical background, I still felt that it added a lot of value to my understanding as to where we should be headed as an organization. This book does well in explaining concepts that I wouldn't have otherwise known about. The chapters on service oriented architectures, components and security considerations was an eye opener.Didn't personally read the other chapters since I do not develop software but my staff tells me they are good as well. Organizations that are serious about web services would do well to buy this book for all members of their project team.