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Title: SOAP: Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML by Scott Seely, Kent Sharkey ISBN: 0-13-090763-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 17 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great spec explanations!
Comment: Just a couple of quick comments:
1. The brief history that explains why SOAP was invented was handy in understanding where the need for SOAP came from.
2. Great job on explaining the only XML you need to know in order to understand SOAP. So far, the content has been dead on.
3. The book has given me a good understanding of how all this stuff works.
I grabbed this one because of Scott's interop article he did for MSDN. I figured that he had to learn the info somewhere-- this book must be the location. I hope he revs this one soon after SOAP v1.2 comes out. Hopefully, he'll also include info on the new WS-xxx specs that Microsoft is pumping out. If anyone can explain this stuff well, it's Scott!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Web Services coverage!
Comment: I've read the other positive reviews on this topic and they already say quite a bit about the book-- explains SOAP well, good XML primer, yadda yadda yadda. I learned quite a bit from this book. The thing this guy does that many authors don't do is he explains all the basics (fairly common) and then shows how everythiing works across C#, VB 6, and Java on *nix and Windows. Most authors cop out and stick with only Linux or only Windows. None of the books I've seen build an example that crosses the bridge.
Before buying this title, I highly recommend that you check out the At Your Service column on MSDN. Scott's a co-author on that column. If you like the writing style in his columns, you'll love the book. For more in depth writing, consider searching for his name and look for more articles. That's what I did.
Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly organized
Comment: I felt this book was poorly organized, and lacking in the type of information I wanted.
Chapter 1 is a history of the computer, starting with the abacus. (I'm not kidding.) Chapter 2 is an overview of XML, which might have been useful except that this book is clearly not aimed at people unfamiliar with XML. Chapter 3 is a rehash of the SOAP specification. While potentially interesting, this chapter (like the specification itself) is a blow-by-blow discussion of very minute details of the SOAP syntax. This chapter would have been better as an appendix. Better yet, just provide a hyperlink to the SOAP specification for those who are interested.
The remainder of the book is made up of two example applications and some "oh by the way" disccusions of issues more or less related to SOAP itself. Chapter 4 discusses a "simple" SOAP application in great detail. This was the chapter I found most nearly useful. Chapters 5 and 6 cover WSDL and UDDI, not SOAP. Chapter 7 talks about vendor-specific implementations of SOAP--a chapter that is already totally outdated. Chapter 8 through the end discusses a single large application built using soap. For me, Chapter 4 was the only one that came close to providing real value.
In summary, this is yet another "talk about anything to fill up the pages" book. If you remove 100+ pages of raw source code, 5 chapters that give general introductions to the history of the computer, XML, WSDL, and UDDI, you wind up with about 40 pages of poorly organized, scattered writings about SOAP itself. Not worth the [the money], in my opinion.
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Title: Special Edition Using SOAP by John Mueller ISBN: 0789725665 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 12 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Programming Web Services with SOAP by James Snell, Doug Tidwell, Pavel Kulchenko ISBN: 0596000952 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI by Eric Newcomer ISBN: 0201750813 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET Web Services by Kenn Scribner, Mark Stiver ISBN: 0672321114 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 25 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly XML) by Ethan Cerami ISBN: 0596002246 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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