Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 0056.276
EAN: 9780130907639
ISBN: 0130907634
Label: Pearson Education
Manufacturer: Pearson Education
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: August 17, 2001
Publisher: Pearson Education
Sales Rank: 590616
Studio: Pearson Education
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poorly organized
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Failure to explain any basic concepts clearly
There are two extremely catagories of books.
1. Explain unclear concepts with clear logic and clear language.
2. Explain clear concepts with unclear logic and unclear languege.
This book definitely belongs to the second catagory.
How hard XML scheme syntax could be? This book can screw all of them up.
It wastes of your time if you did not already know what SOAP is.
Rating:  - Top to Bottom coverage
I've read about SOAP and Web Services from other books and have always come out with questions about how certain ideas work "under the hood". I feel that I really understand a concept if I know how it works at the wire level. The problem with many of the books out there is that they give you a very good coverage of the technology but not much insight into the fundamentals. Scott Seely's book on the other hand gives you a very balanced view of SOAP. It discusses XML schemas and the SOAP messaging ... Read More
Rating: - Sorry but ...
Sorry to say, but I felt this book was no more than a first draft . At the end of it, I had no clear idea on how to write a SOAP message without refering to many other books or the spec itself. Sure the book gave me a basic overview of SOAP, but not one that I could take away and use, and gave me an overall impression that SOAP is complicated and messy. This was a rushed effort, and a waste of time. If this is one of the best books available on SOAP, then it doesn't say much for the technical authors ... Read More
Rating: - I am sorry for the author, he should spend more time on this
It's understandable that the author donot have much time in
writing this book. But I think both the publisher and the
author should be serious on writing a book.
Overall, it's not professional!
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