by David A. Chappell & Tyler Jewell
Published by O'Reilly Review by Thomas A. Valletta The book has some good detail, but it takes a few chapters to get into it. If you are a developer like me you want the "how" then the "why". This book has some really good "why" up front. It would be a great executive summary for manager or salesperson that was never going to build or use a web service but still needed to be able to understand the concepts jargon. That is not me. Getting past that, I appreciated the concise detail in the later chapters. Chappell gives a straightforward explanation of Web Services, including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and Interoperability. He skips the introduction to xml, html, http, request, response, etc. that you have to wade through in most books before getting to the topic that interested you in the book in the first place. If you need that, don't buy this book. If you want a book for developers that already have an intermediate or better understanding of J2EE, this would be a good choice. The content is a little dated but all still relevant. Many of the specifications have become standards since this book was written. But they have not changed as far as I can tell. Everything that you will learn from this book is still relevant today.
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