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Web Services: A Java Developer's Guide Using e-Speak (With CD-ROM)
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Author: Naresh Apte, Toral Mehta
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0130623385
Publisher: Prentice Hall (28 November, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 692,068
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A must read for all
It was a great experience , learning from this book. All the technicalities have been explained in simple language. Content is highly practical for new learners as well as advanced programmers.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The First Web Services Infrastructure Gets a Book
First a disclaimer; I am one of the originators of e-speak, the technology described in this book. That means you should question favorable comments I make about the technology. It also means that I appreciate how hard it was to write a book that describes e-speak as clearly as this one does.E-speak started at the end of 1995 as a research project at Hewlett-Packard's research division. At that time, there was no such thing as web services, XML was just being defined, and e-commerce was browser-centric. Our goal was to define an infrastructure that hid much of the complexity of developing Internet-based businesses. We succeeded (watch out here), but our solution required thinking about things in a new way. That made explaining e-speak difficult. The authors of this book succeed in explaining web services, what e-speak is, why you should use it, and how to use it. Neither too formal nor too whimsical, the presentation strikes the proper balance between presenting facts and explaining concepts, doing both in a very readable fashion. The book opens by explaining what web services are and the benefits of developing businesses around them. The book ends with a review of comparable technologies, the competitive landscape, and prognistications about the future. These sections alone are worth the price of the book. The bulk of the book is about using e-speak's Java programming interface to develop e-services. (Read the book to see why I didn't say web services.) Rather than present an encyclopedic list of all the features, the authors take the example of a travel service. Each chapter adds a new twist, more functionality or better security, for example. In this way, the reader is led to understand both the benefits each feature provides and the code for using the feature. All the major parts of e-speak are included, but the reader never feels inundated with unnecessary detail. If you're interested in web services and how they will affect the way business is done, read the opening and closing chapters. If you'd like to build an e-service, this book gives you a jump start. Most importantly, this book will give you an understanding of the concepts, something that is more important to success than just learning the technology.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Primer on web services and their place in a solution
I bought this book because of the hype around web services. I wanted to learn what they were and how they were different from simple web applications (ASP stype). This book really helped me understand what web services or e-services are and how they can be used in a solution. The book also spent a good amount of time explaining architectural nuances that need to be considered when developing a web service solution. For example, what security considerations to make, issues around scalability, service registry technologies. The book takes a solution perspective rather than a technology perspective, I found a lot of value in it regarding how to build web service solutions. The last part of the book discussed the competitive landscape (gave quite some history as well) and also shared thoughts on the evolution of e-speak into the web services platform. A good read if you want a primer on web services, their architecture or the competitive space. I strongly recommend reading this book to get a perspective on web services and the much-hyped value proposition before buying one of the very technical reference guide texts available.
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