Professional XML Web Services

by Patrick Cauldwell, Gary Damschen, Zaev Zoran, et al.

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861005091
• ISBN13: 9781861005090
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Best Web Services book currently available

This is a good intro to various topics related to web services, probably the best one available so far (admittedly a pretty small field at this time). It covers the standards behind the technology and proceeds to practical working examples of how to put web services into use. There is some coverage of projected future technologies, but mostly sticks to systems that are currently available (skipping, for example, Apache Axis). The author-per-chapter approach means the chapters are somewhat independent, so you can select a topic of interest and go right to that chapter, without having to read everything that came before it. On the other hand, it means some material is covered in multiple places in the book.

Good overall Web services intro book

I am totally new to Web services, and know not a lot about XML. This book I found was for me a very nice general overall introduction to webservices. It was enough to get me immediatley started in Web services. I can definitley recommend this book to anyone new to Web services.

One of the first books on this nascent subject

Do you have to develop Web Services within the next few months? Then this is a good book to have. Remember, that this is a new technology and things seem to be changing at a very rapid pace. So, by the time you buy this book verify that this is not out of date. In the current form, I would recommend this book till early part of 2002.