Soa Using Java Web Services

I've read all of the reviews here, which are interesting and provocative. The ironic thing is that I agree with much of what the one and two star reviewers said but still rate this book 5 stars. Potential buyers need to know what they are getting. This is the single best book on JWS programming available. It's incredibly dense. The acronyms fly all over the place. Hansen dives into technologies and if you don't know the technologies already you will find yourself spending hours digging into things like XSLT. We're talking about many, many hours to swallow the whole thing. It's an expert's book - anyone who is serious about JWS and SOA has to have this book with Monson-Haefel 'J2EE Web Services' right next to it to cover the stuff Hansen doesn't address. But I also recommend the book to people who are less serious and have less time, and even to beginners. These readers should buy the book, start with section 7.7 (an excellent demo of the Java 6 Endpoint class, which is as simple as JWS gets), and maybe do Chapter 3 to learn something about REST (also fairly simple). Then put it on your shelf until you have a few hours free, and tackle a section of one of the chapters. Keep at it, though it might take a while. This book will improve your understanding over time. I've encountered a few technical books which I've worn into a limp condition from reading and re-reading - this looks like another.

I'm not sure what I like best about this work. Is it the author's ability to clearly explain the details of SOAP and the improved Sun implementation of Web services without becoming tedious ? Is it the fact the his code examples work ? Is it his provided Maven build scripts or his attentive support on the book's Web site ? I guess it's all of those things. The author provides a lot of detail about what's happening under the covers and illustrates what he is saying with real XML and code and build scripts. The material is dense but written in a readable style. Hansen points out that developing Web services is not easy, and that's the truth, so you should not buy this book if you are hoping to pick up a new skill in a week. If your goal is to master the subject, however, I have never seen a better single starting point than this book and its collection of supporting resources. I'd like to take the opportunity to recognize the author for contributing what is in my view an exemplary piece of work in the software development field. If only more books were created this way ! Thanks.

College-level and professional collections strong in Java web programming will find SOA Using Java Web Servers an important reference: it's for advanced users and offers a hands-on guide to complementing web services and Service Oriented Architecture. Chapters cover best-practice design ideas and the latest code samples, explaining mapping strategies and SOA integration processes, surveying packaging and deploying web services components, and including code solutions for common development issues. No SOA collection should be without it!

This is a very good book to learn and master WebServices and SOA concepts. I am a developer and understand how difficult it is to develop and maintain webservices for an enterprise application. This book explains the concepts very clearly along with very good examples which I use as reference for my development. From design to implementation this book has been very helpful. I recommend that everyone who is working on webservices should have this book. This book also talks about interesting ideas which will help in designing robust and scalable web service applications. It surely helps improve design and build robust,scalable web service application, and very good for reference.