- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (13 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201750813
- ISBN-13: 978-0201750812
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 18.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,122,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Understanding Web Services, leading Web Services expert Eric Newcomer systematically addresses the core issues developers and IT professionals need to understand to make intelligent decisions about Web Services. Newcomer explains exactly how Web Services work, reviews each key standard for enabling Web Services, and previews tomorrow's most important products and technologies for Web Services development. Newcomer reviews the key goals and advantages of Web Services, the applications they are best suited for, and today's key standards for describing, sending, receiving, publishing, discovering, and utilizing them. He explains how Web Services are being built upon the foundation of XML technologies, then covers each key Web Services standard in detail: SOAP transport, WSDL services description, UDDI discovery services, and ebXML message exchange. Newcomer concludes with insightful, vendor-independent coverage of today's leading tools and products for Web Services development. For every IT manager, architect, developer, and strategist who wants a thorough understanding of Web Services.
From the Back Cover
Web services enable the new generation of Internet-based applications. These services support application-to-application Internet communication--that is, applications at different network locations can be integrated to function as if they were part of a single, large software system. Examples of applications made possible by Web services include automated business transactions and direct (nonbrowser) desktop and handheld device access to reservations, stock trading, and order-tracking systems.
Several key standards have emerged that together form the foundation for Web services: XML (Extensible Markup Language), WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). In addition, ebXML (Electronic Business XML) has been specified to facilitate automated business process integration among trading partners.
This book introduces the main ideas and concepts behind core and extended Web services' technologies and provides developers with a primer for each of the major technologies that have emerged in this space. In addition, Understanding Web Services summarizes the major architectural approaches to Web services, examines the role of Web services within the .NET and J2EE communities, and provides information about major product offerings from BEA, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, IONA, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and others.
Key topics include:
- XML facilities for structuring and serializing data
- How WSDL maps services onto communication protocols and transports
- WSDL support for RPC-oriented and document-oriented interactions
- SOAP's required and optional elements
- Message processing and the role of intermediaries in SOAP
- UDDI data formats and APIs
- How ebXML offers an alternative to Web services that supports reliable messaging, security, and trading-partner negotiations
With Understanding Web Services, you will be well informed and well positioned to participate in this vast, emerging marketplace.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Now please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying this is a bad book at all. On the contrary, it is quite well-written, surprisingly readable for a technical book, and is a very beautiful item indeed.
However, there are problems: firstly, the book is now a couple of years old. The Web Services field has moved forward a great deal in that time, leaving this book and the information within it somewhat outdated, and at times obsolete (indeed, whither ebXML?). A revised edition would be much welcomed.
The second problem is that the book is just too skimpy. It serves as a reasonable, general introduction to Web Services and related technologies, but sadly does not contain the weight and depth of information that would allow it to serve as a trusty reference on a professional developer's desk.
Either of these two points alone would prevent me from recommending the book. Yet, there are further issues which do make one question the author's motivations (countless references to his own employer, for example) and occasionally even his grasp on reality (a considerable number of pages devoted to explaining why Web Services are better than regular URLs - an entirely erroneous comparison).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Newcomer's book is a good introduction to Web Services and how the major technologies play a role in this area. Technology Standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI are covered in enough detail to enable you to determine their relevance to a particular use case you may be thinking of.
But I came to the book with some understanding already, so whether you can pick this up with no knowledge; I can not comment.
He goes on to talk about ebXML, which you may find interesting but that's old news. One last point to keep in mind is that alot of the developments he talks about was up-to-date 2 years ago, but all the basics are still good.
Format:Paperback
Hi the book is ok, just took too long to get to destination over a month, there should be a way to send it faster, at least the option to do so. Almost get it when i didn't need it any more.
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