Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781861007025 ISBN: 1861007027 Label: Wrox Press Manufacturer: Wrox Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 291 Publication Date: 2002-03 Publisher: Wrox Press Sales Rank: 3165504 Studio: Wrox Press
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Product DescriptionWeb Service Faceplates teaches you, via declarative, schema based programming techniques to build clients for web services that adapt and extend with the web service itself. Using JScript and XSLT you learn how to build front-ends for the web services that remove much of the processing away from the server, and allow it to just perform the necessary task for which the service was created.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Real Idea Generator
Unless you are looking for a book on how to add a GUI to a Web Service (that you likely are not providing), then there will probably be little direct relevance in this book to what you are doing.
However, this book is very thought provoking in that it explores:
* Using XML as your code format. (They present JSML or the JavaScript Markup Language.) * Using XSLT to generate your source code. * Using State Machines to handle application flow. * Schema-Based Programming ... Read More
Rating: - Innovative but rough around the edges
I was attracted to this book because I read Stephen Mohr's earlier book designing distributed apps a few years ago. This book doesn't disappoint if you're (deep) into XML / network applications and architecture. Although it is stimulating and provides several eye-openers, I could only reward this book 3 stars because it is way too Microsoft / .NET centric. If you don't have a full scale, recent Microsoft box running, you'll need to download all kinds of .Net (framework) stuff. On top of that, the samples ... Read More
- A Real Idea Generator
- Innovative but rough around the edges
