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Mark D. Hansen
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Pages: 608 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0130449687
Pub: Prentice Hall
Pub date: 2007-05-17
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 116348
Reader Reviews:
Disorganized presention of random information (2/2 people found this helpful)
Mark Hansen (author) is no doubt a smart guy, but it doesn't come across in this book. I bought this book hoping to learn how to develop web services using Java and JAX-WS. I have 10 years of industry experience, and have used Apache AXIS for Java web service development, but needed to learn JAX-WS instead.
After having read only a few chapters I have decided not to waste anymore time on this book.
The primary reason I don't like it is, that Mark apparently fails to understand what level a developer new to web services is at. Instead of building up the readers knowledge of web services from the ground up, Mark jumps around the topics. For instance, there are typically two ways to develop web services: Either you have some Java code and need a web service interface for it, or you have a WSDL and need Java code for it. The book states that often you actually have both Java code and a WSDL and need to bridge the gap between them. This is correct, no doubt. However, Mark uses this as a justification for *starting* out explaining this case, rather than build of the users understanding by first showing Java to WSDL, then WSDL to Java, then the bridging case. Just because the bridging case is the most important, it does not automatically mean that this is the place to start explaining the matter.
Another reason I don't like this book is that it is not self contained. It takes up 600 pages, but doesn't even have chapters on WSDL, Schema, SOAP, HTTP, or any of the other protocols involved in web services. But hey, perhaps I just misunderstood the purpose of this book. It is definately not a web service beginners book!
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