Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276 EAN: 9780321113597 ISBN: 0321113594 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: February 22, 2003 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 415547 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Product Description Addresses the issue of why Web services exist, and how to create them using Microsoft .NET. Features a lot of code and many working examples. Softcover.
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Rating: - Very clear introduction to MS web service technologies
I'm a Java architect/developer with quite a bit of web service experience. I purchased this book to help me write MS-based web service clients to test interoperability. I found the presentation to be logically structured and very clear. The writing is some of the best technical writing I've seen. It quickly helped me figure out the basics of how MS's web service framework works.
Note this is an older book, so I imagine quite a few things have changed since it was published - although ... Read More
Rating: - This is a horrible book.
Web service architecture is a big topic and it's not easy to explain well. Obviously the author attempted to explain it but may be due to limited amount of time, his explanation is very shallow and sometimes almost useless: on page 49, he briefly touches how to create object reference with ID/HREF combinations and promises to discuss the topic in Chapter 9 in "greater detail". In chapter 9, on page 183, yes, he revisited that topic but only with 3 short lines of "explanation" which is pretty much ... Read More
Rating: - Substandard: shallow, few examples, MANY errors!!!
This is one of the most disappointing books I have ever read. I have read a few books in the ".NET Development Series" before and have come to expect solid, easy to grasp, and useful information. This books fails on almost every account.
The explanations are inadequate. The author uses a lot of time to explain the obvious, while failing to explain more complex topics.
The language is really, really bad. An example: "Of course, there are many other applications of routing ... Read More
Rating: - It is not a reference. It is only an overview.
Hi,
In the first chapters, where the Keith describes the protocols and underlying technologies of the XML WebServices, the reader gets more question marks in his head only. The explanations are very short. Actually there is no explanation, the author recommends to see the specifications foreach topic. For many things even there isn't any information.
As you read the book, you get the feeling that the author knows everything about web services, but he is not willing to show ... Read More
Rating: - No practical information to actually get you started
The author jumps around various topics, and constantly refers to SOAP standard section 5 or 7 in his descriptions. It looks as if he expect the readers to be fully conversant with the nuts and bolts of SOAP spec, and we all know this is a tall order.
Worst of all, he failed to put together even a single real world app to illustrate the best way to make use of web services, TODAY.
He talks about Web service technology as if the tech is an end onto itself.
- Very clear introduction to MS web service technologies
- This is a horrible book.
