The Java Web Services Tutorial

ISBN:0201768119
Pages:528
Date:2002-03-15
Publisher:Pearson Education
Rating:2.5

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    From the Back Cover
The Java&#153 Web Services Tutorial is a comprehensive, example-driven, "roll up your sleeves and dive in" guide to building Web services applications with Java&#153 technology. This edition provides a head start on using the Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP) from Sun Microsystems. This complete, ready-to-use package includes a variety of technologies and tools required to build and deploy comprehensive Web services applications today.Web services offer powerful new ways for enterprises to effectively communicate with each other using diverse computing hardware. This paradigm takes the Java platform's "Write Once, Run Anywhere&#153" capabilities to a new level by providing a completely portable data model. By supporting the latest standards for XML-based Web services, the Java APIs for XML make it easy to build Web services with minimal hand tweaking of data. This tutorial explains these APIs in detail and provides practical examples to reinforce your understanding of key concepts. The accompanying CD-ROM includes:

This package also includes instructions for deploying Web services applications on the Java 2 SDK, Enterprise Edition. 0201768119B03262002/p>
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Don't buy it: Save yourself some confusion
I bought the EA1 edition through Foyles bookstore. Unfortunately the EA1 edition is massively out of sync with the current FCS version of the software, and the Cd didn't contain the examples (or at least not where the book said they were). So I ended up downloading the examples. The build.xml files in the download are laughably different from the book, and several steps need to be taken which the book mentions nothing of.It's a major shame since the book looked very good. But I completely wasted my ?38 and have wound up using the (confusing) online tutorial. Apparently a FCS version of the book is coming out in several months. Wait for it. Assuming that they haven't changed version yet again it should be a good book. Right now it is a waste of money.
Why not just read these pages on line
I feel sorry for sun: they have to give away so much for java to succeed, and their direct java revenue must come from J2ee licensees, JCP membership fees and books. This book is a dead-tree of the online JWSDP tutorial, with the benefit that you can read it while off line, the disadvantage that you pay for the privilege. Either way, I dont think it is that good a tutorial; it covers the Sun way of thinking, but doesnt get into the details of interop problems, maybe because SUNW dont seem to be participating in the SoapBuilders interop fests. Interoperability is the bane of and key to the success of web services, and if all you are doing is taking existing EJB beans and turning them into web services, you arent building a real web service. If you are using the Axis framework, there are better books, like the SAMS press one. No doubt something great will come along for the Sun product, but this is not, yet, it.