Rating:  - Excellent starting point when dealing with web services
This book is really an excellent one for programmers who want to start with web services. It gives a compact overview of XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Especially Java programmers will find some good code listings. But don't expect more than an introduction to web services.
Rating:  - All bones, no meat
This book is really lacking on much useful information. It's mostly a high-level overview. For anyone seriously interested in web services I'd recommend getting a different book!
Rating:  - Perfect reading to get started
An introduction to all the main technologies involved in Web services, with a high level coverage of XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. The book includes a good range of working examples and can be the perfect reading to get started on this topic
Rating: - Concise and Practical
An excellent software book that I have read in years. It is too the point and explains all the topics nicely and has good enough examples to get you started right away.
Rating: - It is Essential and useful too!
When it comes to computer books, we have all seen it before: a couple of books with a catchy title are successes, the publisher then wants to continue leverage the
name recognition and comes out with other books that have the same word in the title. Even those friendly folks at O'Reilly Publishing seem to be guilty of this problem; exactly how large does a book have to get before it is no longer a 'nutshell'? "Web Services Essentials" might sounds like just such a title. At a not very thick 278 pages I wondered how much territory this book would cover. Would it be too high level or detailed but not cover the territory. As a long time Java developer, reader of the industry press and president of the Utah Java Users Group I have seen my share of overviews and introductions. I am pleased to report that theWeb Services Essentials lives up to it title. It is an impressively compact overview of the essentials of Web Services, but including the enough detail down to working code.
I have seen lots of computer books including many from O'Reilly, but I rarely find one that is such a clean straight forward introduction to the material as Web Services Essentials. I was pleasantly surpised and found it to be just the book I needed to get to the level of working examples of Web Services using Java. This book lived up to it title, serving well it role as small book containing just the essentials including working code and complete examples of the various XML documents and Java APIs involved in the world of Web Services.
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