Comments on: Developing Enterprise Web Services: An Architect’s Guide

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:16:23 +0000

Web services are an evolving technology for machine to machine interoperability. What’s frustrated me is that books in this space seem to be either too narrowly focused on programming platforms or quickly dated. This book is a breath of fresh air: it’s up to date and deals primarily with web services as a technology rather than a bolt-on. In my opinion, this is the current book to own for starting to get your brain around web services. It stands out as being very useful to me as an architect.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:13:15 +0000

This book presents the most recent snapshot of development in web services area. It covers not only the fundamental constructs of the technology in detail but also the advanced topics that arise in any enterprise-level projects. The authors show how web services address such common problems as transactions and security without mystifying the technology. The best part is the exemplary real-world applications introduced later in the book as a proof that web service technology is a full-fledged distributed computing beyond simple stock-quotes. I would recommend this book to anybody who would like to understand what the technology really is and what it is not, and who considers it for a new paradigm of distributed computing.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:36:33 +0000

This is a book providing up to date information about webservice. It covers almost all the areas in developing enterprise webservice application. For architects/managers, it is detail enough have a overview about webservice architecture. For developers, besides webservice architecture information, it provides some solid samples on webservice development. Although most of the samples are Java/J2EE based, for .NET developers, it is still quite helpful and definitely you can apply to the similar technology in .NET. The text is quite consise and easy to understand. Compared to other books which just talks about one of two topics and then provides many vocabulary, there is no doubt that I’ll recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Paul Lopez

Paul Lopez — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:32:55 +0000

This book isn’t much better than freely available online documents on the same subjects. The book suffers from the usual problems of a book with too much level content and no practical hands-on information — Architecture with out practical solution or a prototype model is constructing a building with out foundation. The authors explained individual topics to the extent that it is even confusing. I found this is the last book to be used for quick reference. This book is quite useless to me and I am a googling around for better information.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:26:09 +0000

I bought this book with lot of hopes, all I got is a JUNK. This book is nothing but a copy of specs obtained from OACIS and W3C. If you think about on implementing a WORKING Web services architecture using Java or .NET, then all you find is ZERO content. There is no working real-world architecture or implementation example discussed in this book. All the chapters are disconnected.

Waste of money.
Rating: 1 / 5