Programming Web Services with SOAP
March 20, 2010 by Ca-Mi.com
Filed under Web Services Books
Product Description
The web services architecture provides a new standard for building distributed Web-based applications across a network. Programming Web Services with SOAP is a detailed guide to using the leading web services standards, including SOAP (Simple Open Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Service Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration protocol). You’ll learn the concepts of the web services architecture and get practical acvice on building and deploying web services in the enterprise. This authoritative book decodes the standards, explaining the concepts and implementation in a clear, concise style. You’ll also learn about the major toolkits for building and deploying web services. Examples in Java, Perl, C#, and Visual Basic illustrate the principles. Significant applications developed using Java and Perl on the Apache Tomcat web platform address real issues such as security, debugging, and interoperability. Programming Web Services with SOAP provides you with all the information on the standards, protocols, and toolkits you’ll need to integrate information services with SOAP. You’ll find a solid core of information that will help you develop individual Web services or discover new ways to integrate core business processes across an enterprise.
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I was so keen to learn from this book, but no matter how hard I tried it had too much nonsense to be readable or usable.
Rating: 1 / 5
Looks like other reviewers have beaten this book up on other aspects, so I’m not going to repeat what they say.
Another important fact that this book misses is that the Python language has the most flexible and “make sense” implementation of SOAP library.
I have dealt with SOAP since mid-last year when we need to find a technology that will bridge COM and Java world that performs acceptably. The choice fell on SOAP. Since our system is Java-based, we need to use Java SOAP.
The interesting point is that it took us just 2 weeks to come up with a Python prototype program which we continuously use to measure up the Java SOAP implementation which ends up taking us months to complete.
This shows just how up-to-date the Python community is in keeping up with new technologies (those that have potentials).
So why Python is not included in the selection of the language in this book is beyond me.
NOTE: For readers who ask “Python-what??”: Python is a typeless language that is more readable than Visual Basic but as versatile as Perl.
Rating: 2 / 5
Book contains too short examples and samples are written
in many languages. The “clue of book” is also missing.
This is too “basic stuff” and is not suitable for a programmer. The good architectual overview of Web Services and how it works is also missing. Looking for a better book, maybe Java related.
Rating: 1 / 5
…This is an excellent book, very much on par with O’Reilly and deserving of it’s current top ranking at the Web Services Journal Reader’s Choice Awards. The book IS short (thank god) which is one of its strong points as it doesn’t wax on about tons of useless crap and gets straight to the point. It also doesn’t gloss over the areas where Web services technology is still lacking today (uh, security) and shows some nice simple examples to help developers get started. Great book, well worth the price and the time. Definite buy.
Rating: 5 / 5
If your pretty new at SOAP, and if you need an overview, then this is the book you want.
If you don’t care about interoperability, and you just want a book on SOAP within a particular environment (say Java), then this is not the book you want.
If you need a reference guide, then you don’t need this book.
Rating: 4 / 5