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Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI

Format: Paperback
Author: Steve Graham
ReleaseDate: 12 December, 2001
Publisher: Pearson Education
Rating:

The worst book
You will find their writing style extremly annoying. The writers either do not understand the topics, or they want to confuse the readers intentionally. They use the Skatestown(??) example to mislead the readers whenever they need to explain something. I dont know how such a bad written book can make it out to the book stores. If you buy this book, it will be the biggest waste of money.

sample code is not complete
Just a few wsdl files don't help very much. I am still wondering why the authors don't provide all the code, since the book describes an application and that should have been tested and the code is there. .

Samples
It is hard sometimes to understand what they are explaning since you just see a fragment of a WSDD, but not the classes or vice-versa. There is an important thing missing in this book: complete samples. Since the book is already too long, the authors should have samples in the Internet. They even don't need to explain too much about these complete samples. Leave the developers to comment and validate them in Internet forums. In my view, samples will transform what now is just a so-so book in an excellent one.