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Expert Solutions and State-of-the-Art Code Examples

SOA Using Java™ Web Services is a hands-on guide to implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with today’s Java EE 5 and Java SE 6 platforms. Author Mark Hansen presents in explicit detail the information that enterprise developers and architects need to succeed, from best-practice design techniques to state-of-the-art code samples.

Hansen covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications. He begins by reviewing the “big picture,” including the challenges of Java-based SOA development and the limitations of traditional approaches. Next, he systematically introduces the latest Java Web Services (JWS) APIs and walks through creating Web services that integrate into a comprehensive SOA solution. Finally, he shows how application frameworks based on JWS can streamline the entire SOA development process and introduces one such framework: SOA-J.

The book

Introduces practical techniques for managing the complexity of Web services and SOA, including best-practice design examples
Offers hard-won insights into building effective SOA applications with Java Web Services
Illuminates recent major JWS improvements–including two full chapters on JAX-WS 2.0
Thoroughly explains SOA integration using WSDL, SOAP, Java/XML mapping, and JAXB 2.0 data binding
Walks step by step through packaging and deploying Web services components on Java EE 5 with JSR-181 (WS-Metadata 2.0) and JSR-109
Includes specific code solutions for many development issues, from publishing REST endpoints to consuming SOAP services with WSDL
Presents a complete case study using the JWS APIs, together with an Ajax front end, to build a SOA application integrating Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, and eBay
Contains hundreds of code samples–all tested with the GlassFish Java EE 5 reference implementation–that are downloadable from the companion Web site, http://soabook.com.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Service-Oriented Architecture with Java Web Services
Chapter 2: An Overview of Java Web Services
Chapter 3: Basic SOA Using REST
Chapter 4: The Role of WSDL, SOAP, and Java/XML Mapping in SOA
Chapter 5: The JAXB 2.0 Data Binding
Chapter 6: JAX-WS–Client-Side Development
Chapter 7: JAX-WS 2.0–Server-Side Development
Chapter 8: Packaging and Deployment of SOA Components (JSR-181 and JSR-109)
Chapter 9: SOAShopper: Integrating eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! Shopping
Chapter 10: Ajax and Java Web Services
Chapter 11: WSDL-Centric Java Web Services with SOA-J
Appendix A: Java, XML, and Web Services Standards Used in This Book
Appendix B: Software Configuration Guide
Appendix C: Namespace
Prefixes
Glossary
References
Index

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Expert Solutions and State-of-the-Art Code Examples

The book

Introduces practical techniques for managing the complexity of Web services and SOA, including best-practice design examples
Offers hard-won insights into building effective SOA applications with Java Web Services
Illuminates recent major JWS improvements–including two full chapters on JAX-WS 2.0
Thoroughly explains SOA integration using WSDL, SOAP, Java/XML mapping, and JAXB 2.0 data binding
Walks step by step through packaging and deploying Web services components on Java EE 5 with JSR-181 (WS-Metadata 2.0) and JSR-109
Includes specific code solutions for many development issues, from publishing REST endpoints to consuming SOAP services with WSDL
Presents a complete case study using the JWS APIs, together with an Ajax front end, to build a SOA application integrating Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, and eBay
Contains hundreds of code samples–all tested with the GlassFish Java EE 5 reference implementation–that are downloadable from the companion Web site, http://soabook.com.

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Disorganized presention of random information 1 April 2008

By Jakob Jenkov

Format:Paperback

Mark Hansen (author) is no doubt a smart guy, but it doesn't come across in this book. I bought this book hoping to learn how to develop web services using Java and JAX-WS. I have 10 years of industry experience, and have used Apache AXIS for Java web service development, but needed to learn JAX-WS instead.

After having read only a few chapters I have decided not to waste anymore time on this book.

The primary reason I don't like it is, that Mark apparently fails to understand what level a developer new to web services is at. Instead of building up the readers knowledge of web services from the ground up, Mark jumps around the topics. For instance, there are typically two ways to develop web services: Either you have some Java code and need a web service interface for it, or you have a WSDL and need Java code for it. The book states that often you actually have both Java code and a WSDL and need to bridge the gap between them. This is correct, no doubt. However, Mark uses this as a justification for *starting* out explaining this case, rather than build of the users understanding by first showing Java to WSDL, then WSDL to Java, then the bridging case. Just because the bridging case is the most important, it does not automatically mean that this is the place to start explaining the matter.

Another reason I don't like this book is that it is not self contained. It takes up 600 pages, but doesn't even have chapters on WSDL, Schema, SOAP, HTTP, or any of the other protocols involved in web services. But hey, perhaps I just misunderstood the purpose of this book. It is definately not a web service beginners book!

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Strong Medicine For Experienced Developers 11 July 2008

By G. Gilmour

This is not a book for junior or intermediate Java developers looking to write their first web service. Nor is it a gradual introducion to the Web Services technology stack. Instead the book is aimed squarely at experienced developers who already know HTTP, SOAP, XML Schema, WSDL etc... and are still scratching their heads trying to make Web Services work in Java. The density of the material here is scary but the quality is superb. I've bought lots of Web Service books and this is the only one that was of practical use to me. Strongly recommended for those who seriously need to make SOA work.

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Best book Java Web Services for programmers & technical architects 4 Nov 2008

By Mr. D. S. Stadler VINE™ VOICE

I've been working through this book for a couple weeks now. It's very dense reading, not infrequently I am obliged to page back and reread a section because I missed something important. The author remarks in the foreword that it's not an easy subject; he's not joking. It isn't.

That said, I have to say it's the most useful book I've found on actually programming these things. It focuses on SOA, which is to say a particular style of SOAP Web Services, but also contains a useful chapter on RESTful Web services.

From the technical architecture POV I found Hansen's observations on the tradeoffs between REST and SOAP and upon which choices to make when wiring up SOAP Web Services.

The problem with many Web Services books is that they are too simple. The show an example of how to write a greenfield Web Services app without tackling the real problem facing most developers: Web Services are primarily an integration tool, and systems integrators rarely have the luxury of doing greenfield development; they must hook together existing classes and schemas and this can be very difficult. Hansen shows how to solve the real problems.