Professional Open Source Web Services

by Kapil Apshankar, Christopher Browne, P.G. Sarang, et al.

Web Services is a new paradigm and probably one of the most discussed subjects amongst the IT solution providers. It is a simple concept that enables grand integration of various blocks of existing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861007469
• ISBN13: 9781861007469
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read

This is a great read. Unlike so many computer books, its not filled with unnecessary introductory chapters for every topic. It is very practical as well as explaining the underlying technologies at a level you can understand them without getting bogged down on detail you only really need to know when you are actually coding. As a member of the Open Web Application Security Project. I was especially interested in web services security and the practical examples were very well explained and well written. This book sits high on my large pile of books so I can get to it easily!

Keep this coming

I bought this book before vacation. I never posted any review before, but thought coz I think the book is wonderful and deserves appreciation. Incidently, the book contains more than I expected. Wonder how the authors have managed to give all that in such a compact size. The information makes me feel confident to face my customers. Although PHP and Python have not developed to my expectations. SOAP4R and kSoap was a pleasant surprise. Why so much of C++?? In future, expand PHP and Java sections. I give 5 stars because I use only open source and I encourage a book of this kind. This book was just what I was looking for!

Good one with plenty of reference info

Fairly decent book(why all the negative reviews here?). Covers the widely available web services fairly well, but could have done better by detailing more on SOAP than XML-RPC. Has good coverage of the three main service technologies and lots of reference material on diffrent servers including ones based on Java and Perl. Topics on exposing stateless and stateful EJBs as web services and embedded web services are hard to find elsewhere. Packs a lot of info in one book, where each topic is qualified to be a book by itself. Has lots of sample code and interoperability info. Good value for money.

Good coverage of Open Source Web Service products

I am interested in lightweight soap implementations and using SOAP via applets, and found this book extremely useful.