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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (14 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596002246
  • ISBN-13: 978-8173663390
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,880 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Web Services Essentials is an overview of XML Web services, aimed primarily at Java developers with some existing knowledge of XML. The main subject is SOAP, which is widely supported in the industry. After a general introduction, the author describes XML-RPC, an older and simpler alternative to SOAP. Next comes a quick introduction to the SOAP specification, followed by two chapters on getting started with Apache SOAP. These show how to set up a Web service using the Apache Tomcat server, and how to invoke the service with a Java client. An important chapter covers WSDL, the description language that enables clients to locate and invoke Web services. The last part of the book is a look at UDDI, a means of publishing Web services in a directory. In these three final chapters, the book introduces UDDI, describes its Inquiry API, and offers examples and a quick reference for the UDDI 4J client toolkit, enabling programmatic retrieval of UDDI data. A plain-English glossary at the back of the book provides welcome help for those perplexed by SOAP jargon.

This is not an in-depth title, and is best regarded as a first book on SOAP. Its scope is narrow, and given that one of SOAP's strong features is interoperability, it is disappointing to find little information on non-Java implementations. Another O'Reilly title, Programming Web Services with SOAP, has a better stab at this by including Perl and Microsoft .NET alongside Apache SOAP. On the plus side, there is considerable detail on UDDI, which is a topic skated over by some other SOAP introductions, and overall the book is succinct and well-presented. --Tim Anderson



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"This book is not supposed to be a thorough guide to RPC using XML... however, if you're just getting started creating apps which interact with a remote server over HTTP, using any of the languages, then it gets you started with the fundamentals without confusion or jumping in too deeply without sufficient background knowledge of the procedures used." Verdict: Useful coverage of many aspects of XML service creation if you're unfamiliar with many of the languages. 8/10 Linux Format, August 2002 "This book as a whole covers its material as you would expect. If you are wanting an introduction to creating web services, then it is a good place to start. It assumes a familiarity with Java and XML, and these are covered comprehensively elsewhere in the O'Reilly stable. Overall, it is a solid introduction to web services." Joel Smith, news@UK, December 2002

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, 29 Jan 2008
This book was written at the beginning of 2002 and is out of date. You are much better off spending your time reading websites about web services than spending your cash on this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good book for beginners, 18 Jan 2005
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Compared to other web service books I bought, this book is the clearest and easyily understood.
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