Comments about oreilly Java Web Services: Up and Running:

This is a GREAT GREAT book and I would advise any new to web services to read it first, it is a very good book to get up and running with web services, on top the author is quick to reply to any question.

Great reading!

Comments about oreilly Java Web Services: Up and Running:

The organized and concise manner of his approach is great. Whats better is the "sticking to the cli" to show the code examples. Cant tell you all how many times I have wished authors could just stick to vi and javac instead of IDE's to get their points across! Thanks Martin.

Comments about oreilly Java Web Services: Up and Running:

I picked this up on highly rated reviews from various sources, and from first glance I certainly agree. Martin Kalin is very good at presenting the material. However, as with all things in our technical environment it doesn't take long for the printed word to become out of date very quickly. Within the first two chapters an example is provided that uses Amazon's ECommerce site for generating Web service clients. Problem is, Amazon added another layer of security API since this books release (less then 9 months ago) so running the code as provided fails with a non-descript http error.After hunting around in Amazon's developer forums I found the change and the recommended fix, but now there doesn't seem to any resource available through O'Reilly (or otherwise) for posting this information to others who might be interested in using this book. I'd be willing to do this myself if such a forum were available but I believe this would have to be perpetrated by the author and/or O'Reilly publishing directly.Great book otherwise, but it could be better by offering a forum when matters such as this (which is inevitable) come up.

Comments about oreilly Java Web Services: Up and Running:

SOA is quite large to study before one gets a right feeling to programm something. That book shows elegantly the ins-and-outs of the thematic, using the Java API to perform simple but effective examples. At the end of the book you will be well prepared to study in detail the different parts of that service world.

Comments about oreilly Java Web Services: Up and Running:

The book was easier for me to understand than many other books styles I have read. I always respect authors who are willing to have an errata page. This is a big help as all books have errors.