J2ee Web Services

Monson-Haefel has written the book to own if you are developing web services. Even though the book is a few years old, you still need to get this book. If you go around my company and my previous company, all J2EE developers have this one sitting on their desk. Do a Google search and read Monson-Haefel's blog. You will get some insight on his thoughts during and after writing the book and you will find that he will not be doing a revision. That's a complete shame but I don't blame him. It would be nice to get a new revision on all of the new stuff that has come along like annotations, JAX-WS, etc.

Most of the other books about this subject are three or more years old. In other words, too old to be useful. This book covers it all, from the details of mapping between Java and WSDL to the proper way to deploy web services, right down to the deployment descriptors. It's a really well done book. I say this as somone who's currently writing web services and has been through many of the other books.

I was a little bit afraid to buy this book because of many pages. I thought it could be like xdoclet ("computer generated")API book (:-)). NOT AT ALL. Before start of reading my knowledge of WS architecture had serious holes. Now after reading not only these holes are plumbed. I received complete new view of web services and I dare to prepare for certification exam now. You get almost absolute grip of technologies like XML, XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RPC, JAXR, SAAJ, JAXP. This is real Web Service bible. It is a MUST. Go ahead.

This book will teach you the basics you need to know about developing web services,it focus's on how to build Web services from Java and J2EE.Anybody who has a reasonable understanding of Java, J2ee and XML can easily cope with it.