According to recent press reports, everyone is developing Web Services, but many are still in the exploratory phase - learning what's involved and how to achieve ROI. This book is designed to give a working introduction to Web Services to help decision-makers prepare for the implementation in their companies. It demystifies the topic by providing a beginning level explanation of what this technology is, what it means to businesses, where to apply it, and how to make it work.
Using numerous simple examples, the book explains the core concepts of Web Services: SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL, as well as tools and related concepts that will help create the "big picture" in readers' minds.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Served me well as an introduction to web services.:
To get right to the point, this book is written in a very easy to read and accessable style, with just the right diagrams and illustrations in the right places to aid in understanding. I've never programmed with web services, but I need to know the terminology and basically what it's all about. This book served me well in this capacity. It is not a book that goes into detail as to exactly how to do programming. This book is not technology specific, but rather after spending the first half easing... more info
Shipping and quality was great!:
Book was practically new just like it was stated, and it didn't take more than 2 weeks to come which was PERFECT! There was almost no difference between this book and the new books =]
Great reading:
The "Teach Yourself" series has done little to impress me until the arrival of this book. XML-based web services are getting traction as a truly standard way of enabling the service-oriented systems architecture. An architecture where systems can be built to expose services in such a way as to make it easier to integrate enterprise systems has been built many times already, but always ending up with constraints related to programming language, operating system and hardware. This book provides a good... more info
Diving into Web Services:
As someone who knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about web services when I started, this book was the best of the 1/2 dozen titles I perused because it balanced high level understanding with the nitty-gritty and code examples. I found this book far most useful than titles such as 'Web Service: A Manager's Guide' and '.Net Web Services for Dummies'.
As someone who is not particularly technical, the code segments were still very useful in understanding what is going on. Without looking at a little code,... more info
