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All information current as of 22:12:21 Pacific Time, Wednesday, 9 March 2005. Java Web Services Architecture    by James McGovern / Sameer Tyagi / Michael Stevens / Sunil Mathew   Paperback:     Morgan Kaufmann     25 April, 2003    US$37.77       Usually ships in 24 hours Click the button below to . . .      (which will add the book to your Amazon U.S.A. "Shopping Cart") . . . or use your browser's Back button to return to the search-list page.

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Editorial description(s):

Review
"A wonderfully clear and concise guide to using XML to interconnect your network services" -- James Gosling, Creator of Java

"Java Web Services Architecture provides a priceless guide to planning and managing the creation of Web services for your organization." -- Hugh Grant, CTO, Cape Clear Software Inc.

"Java Web Services Architecture really is one of the nicest technical books I have seen in a long time, combining a basic introduction to the subject with a systematic coverage of a very technical set of specifications. I can't imagine anyone is going to write anything better than this for a software developer or architect that wants to design Java Web services applications." -- Paul Harmon, Senior Consultant, Distributed Architecture Service, Cutter Consortium

"Sound Advice from seasoned architects. This is the Web services book to have!" -- John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Coauthor, Core J2EE Patterns

"...McGovern and his team of editors know their stuff and their communication of this knowledge is clear and well presented." JDJ Book Reviews, June 24th, 2003

"Books such as this are bound to become classics and should be on every technologists' bookshelf." Dave Bartels, Reporter, JavaRanch.com, June 27th, 2003


Review
"A wonderfully clear and concise guide to using XML to interconnect your network services" -- James Gosling, Creator of Java

"Java Web Services Architecture provides a priceless guide to planning and managing the creation of Web services for your organization." -- Hugh Grant, CTO, Cape Clear Software Inc.

"Java Web Services Architecture really is one of the nicest technical books I have seen in a long time, combining a basic introduction to the subject with a systematic coverage of a very technical set of specifications. I can't imagine anyone is going to write anything better than this for a software developer or architect that wants to design Java Web services applications." -- Paul Harmon, Senior Consultant, Distributed Architecture Service, Cutter Consortium

"Sound Advice from seasoned architects. This is the Web services book to have!" -- John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Coauthor, Core J2EE Patterns

"...McGovern and his team of editors know their stuff and their communication of this knowledge is clear and well presented." JDJ Book Reviews, June 24th, 2003

"Books such as this are bound to become classics and should be on every technologists' bookshelf." Dave Bartels, Reporter, JavaRanch.com, June 27th, 2003


Book Info
Guide to Java Web services, their usage, and design. Covers the necessary standards and technologies, such as SOAP, ebXML, UDDI, and WSDL. Includes an explanation of the JAX APIs that are the foundation of Web services within Java and their practical application. For architects and developers with real-world Java experience. Softcover.


From the Inside Flap
Java Web Services Architecture is for Web services professionals seeking to understand enterprise architecture, Web services design, and application integration. This book begins with an overview of Web services, their usage, and design, followed by an in-depth look at the necessary standards and technologies (SOAP, EbXML, UDDI, WSDL). This leads into a detailed explanation all of the JAX APIs that are the foundation of Web services within Java, as well as their practical applications. The final section covers numerous advanced topics, including security. While various implementations are exemplified in a running case study, the book remains vendor neutral.


From the Back Cover
Java Web Services Architecture is for Web services professionals seeking to understand enterprise architecture, Web services design, and application integration. This book begins with an overview of Web services, their usage, and design, followed by an in-depth look at the necessary standards and technologies (SOAP, EbXML, UDDI, WSDL). This leads into a detailed explanation all of the JAX APIs that are the foundation of Web services within Java, as well as their practical applications. The final section covers numerous advanced topics, including security. While various implementations are exemplified in a running case study, the book remains vendor neutral.


About the Author
James McGovern is an enterprise architect for Hartford Financial Services with sixteen years of experience in information technology. He is the coauthor of two books, including The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall), and writes the "Ask Doctor Java" column for Java Developers Journal. Sameer Tyagi has nine years of experience in software design and development and works as a Java Architect with Sun Microsystems. He is the coauthor of five books on JSP and JDO and has written numerous articles for Java World, Java Developers Journal, Java Pro, Java Report and Programmez magazine (France). Michael E. Stevens is an application architect for Hartford Financial Services with over fourteen years of experience in information technology. He is a columnist for Developer.com and a coauthor of the Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture with James McGovern. Sunil Mathew has fourteen years of experience in information technology and now manages the Java consulting practice for Sun Microsystems in New England.


Book Description
Written by industry thought leaders, Java Web Services Architecture is a no-nonsense guide to web services technologies including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and the JAX APIs. This book is the trusted advisor to systems architects and provides an unbiased look at many of the practical considerations for implementing web services including authorization, encryption, transactions and the future of Web Services.

* Covers all the standards, the JAX APIs, transactions, security, and more.
* Contains CD with author code and software from BEA, Sun, The Mind Electric, Altova, CapeClear, Systinet, Republica, Iona, Parasoft, Ipedo, and more.
* Web enhanced with additional material at http://www.webservicesarchitecture.com.




Reader review(s):

Not much better than free online docs, October 19, 2003
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 so many authors--the material overlaps and doesn't present a single cohesive perspective.

Don't worth a read, September 30, 2003
Many other reviewers have said it, but I'll say it too: This book is not as polished as it could be. My biggest gripe is that the contents are not organized in a way that supposed to illustrate a web services architecture. The lack of a substantive code and missing illustration is a serious problem.

Section 1 and 3 was a huge disappointment, because it is just as terse as the official dox: Plenty on discussing on the unrealistic stuff, but missing on how to do the basics! And most of web services discussion is like reading a J2EE book with no sense of service oriented arcitecture. I was hoping for something beyond what's on the java.sun.com web site.

The book is full too much of overview and mostly dated now. (allowing for the fact that software evolves faster than books ;->) There is too much goofy stuff.

I tried using Java Web services pack and examples 'round about the same time couple of weeks ago it looks all examples in the book don't work in 1.2. Now I have to read the other tutorial and books around, so I don't have a very good basis for comparison. Bottom line: I don't recommend the book as a web services architecture or a reference of any sort.

800 pages of content with 50 pages of useable material, August 4, 2003
This book is not at all practical. It has over explained individual topics to the extent that it is even confusing. It is the last book to be used for quick reference. Contents are of absolutely of no practical value. Go elsewhere if you want to learn to apply webservices. This book is quite useless to me and I am a very experienced J2EE architect.

Loosely Coupled, June 1, 2003
The vast majority of books written are either for managers or technologists but not usually both. This book manages to pull off the goal of making it easy to understand architecting loosely coupled web services. This book cuts through the hype by presenting both the advantages and disadvantages of this technology.

It seems that nearly every hardware and software vendor is touting a web services strategy. Technology presented in this book is vendor-neutral. If you are planning a web services project, you should read this book thoroughly. If you only want a basic introduction to Web Services, just read the first three chapters. If you already feel comfortable with the basics and you want specific information, you can read selective chapters.

Books such as these are bound to become classics and should be on every technologist's bookshelf.

Study, don't just read this book, January 18, 2004
Many reviewers misunderstand the purpose of this book. In my opinion, this book is gold! The first three chapters give a clear and concise description of the technologies, without complication or over simplification.

This book really worked for me. The compilation from experts with domain expertise created balanced and in-depth discussion without the "hype" associated with this subject. Key concepts and definitions, using examples and great illustrations, made this an easy book to read, but never shallow. If you want a great introduction to Web services, combining business strategy and technical architecture, this book is for you

Practical Web Services, January 10, 2004
Now that Web services passed the peak of the hype curve and have moved into productive use, Java Web Services Architecture provides a technical introduction to Web services that is packed with information on business models, products as well as base technology.

This book is unique in that it covers more than APIs and provides guidance on creating service-oriented architectures and the practical considerations surrounding them. A quick glance at the table of content clearly demonstrates it contains more information than any other Web services book on the market today.

Same boring Web Services Book, June 24, 2003
I purchased few books this year on Web services and the frustrating thing about the latest ones is that
they all seem to be talking about the same topics, this one
is no different. I was mislead by all these raving reviews!
There are certain parts of this book
that you could find in a standard J2EE book (lots available online for free), other sections such as JWS Pack apis are a waste of paper in my opinion (look at the tutorial, they did a good job!). This technology has changed so much over the last year and there are still books that cover JAX-RPC & JAXM enough already! Out of the whole book, there is only a handful of good chapters that I may benefit from, or ... maybe not.

Top Web Services book in Corporate America, September 19, 2003
If you are a buyer of books that likes to complain over minor grammatical errors and code formatting then skip this book. If you like to learn about both development and architecture of web services using Java then this is the book for you.

I have heard this book was being adopted as a corporate standard by Fortune 100 organizations including: Southwest Airlines, FedEx, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, Exxon Mobil, Northwestern Mutual, DuPont and Nestle. The quality of the content speaks to why this book has sold more copies than all other web services book combined.

Great Stuff!, September 14, 2003
This book is not your standard technical discussion of Java Web Services. The introductory chapters set a framework for looking at Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. I've found the concepts and verbiage within these chapters to be very useful when explaining what SOA and Web Services are all about to non-technical people.

The technical half of the book jumps directly to architecture. Some of this section is standard stuff and some of it discusses very unconventional approaches. An architect who jumps directly to the technical portion will be disappointed. The introductory chapters provide a context that the technical sections need to be viewed in.

Managers should read the first half of the book. Architects need to read the whole book.

The book challenges architects. Some of the insights and opinions are radically out of the box. You may love them or hate them, but you will think about how you architect SOA and Web Services. This is not an architecture task cookbook. It's an architecture educational text.

Incomplete book, July 29, 2003
it might be a good beginner's book for understanding the basics of web services. When you start dealing with realworld web services architecture situations, all you get from this book is just how to make a simple hello-world JAXRPC, JAXM example working -- beyond that i had no more use of the book. The chapters on SOA, transactions, practical considerations, security are nothing but theoretical junk with no example proof. After browsing all the pages, I don't find anything which show how to build a working java Web services architecture. The word architecture is abused and does'nt make sense for this title.

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