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Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly XML)
Format: Paperback
Author: Ethan Cerami
ReleaseDate: February, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:
Obsolete and belated book 
The Apache SOAP is already a piece of junk and Apache recommends to use Apache Axis (which is not in the scope of this book). This book is based on obsolete specifications and older SOAP implementation which is not even available for download. All other implementation examples such as XMethods and UDDI4J are also obsolete as well. The APIs are already deprecated and the code discussed does'nt make any sense.
Excellent starting point when dealing with web services 
It gives a compact overview of XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. This book is really an excellent one for programmers who want to start with web services. Especially Java programmers will find some good code listings. But don't expect more than an introduction to web services.
All bones, no meat 
It's mostly a high-level overview. This book is really lacking on much useful information. For anyone seriously interested in web services I'd recommend getting a different book!.
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