Programming Web Services with Soap: Building Distributed Applications

by Doug Tidwell, Pavel Kulchenko, James Snell

Book Overview

The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and implement application-to-application integration and interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant. Two applications, regardless of operating system, programming language, or any other technical implementation detail, communicate using XML messages over open Internet protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. The Simple Open Access Protocol (SOAP) is a specification that details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596000952
• ISBN13: 9780596000950
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Nice introduction

If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need.If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want.If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need.

Nice introduction

If your pretty new at SOAP, and if you need an overview, then this is the book you want.If you don't care about interoperability, and you just want a book on SOAP within a particular environment (say Java), then this is not the book you want.If you need a reference guide, then you don't need this book.

No Nonsense Broad Introduction

This book is a nice introduction to SOAP. It doesn't get caught in the Software wars and has examples of most existing systems. Another advantage: it is a thin book and not a 1000 pages bible. So you can easily read it in a weekend and then decide where you want to dig deeper (if necessary).

Extremely good book

...This is an excellent book, very much on par with O'Reilly and deserving of it's current top ranking at the Web Services Journal Reader's Choice Awards. The book IS short (thank god) which is one of its strong points as it doesn't wax on about tons of useless crap and gets straight to the point. It also doesn't gloss over the areas where Web services technology is still lacking today (uh, security) and shows some nice simple examples to help developers get started. Great book, well worth the price and the time. Definite buy.