| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Java Web Services: Up and Running | | | | | | | Description: | | This example-driven book offers a thorough introduction to Java's APIs for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).
Java Web Services: Up and Running takes a clear, pragmatic approach to these technologies by providing a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing an application. You'll learn how to write web services from scratch and integrate existing services into your Java applications. With Java Web Services: Up and Running, you will: - Understand the distinction between SOAP-based and REST-style services
- Write, deploy, and consume SOAP-based services in core Java
- Understand the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) service contract
- Recognize the structure of a SOAP message
- Learn how to deliver Java-based RESTful web services and consume commercial RESTful services
- Know security requirements for SOAP- and REST-based web services
- Learn how to implement JAX-WS in various application servers
Ideal for students as well as experienced programmers, Java Web Services: Up and Running is the concise guide you need to start working with these technologies right away.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Martin Kalin | | Paperback:
| 320 pages | | Publisher:
| O'Reilly Media | | Publication Date:
| February 19, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 059652112X | | Product Length:
| 9.11 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.36 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.68 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.14 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.06 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.93 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.79 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.54 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 20 reviews |
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47 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 If you want correct details, Don't Waste Your Money!Dec 11, 2009
By Lee Chalupa
"Willie MakeIt (right) and Betty Won't"
The reviewers of this book who rave about the details in this book certainly did not try to execute any of the example code. If they had, they would know that these are errors all the way through the book in the code examples.
The errors are not trival if you are trying to learn by focusing on what exactly the code is doing. In one example in the first chapter, there is a whole class left out of the source code, nor does the book mention it in the text.
Go to the errata section on the publishers website, the list of errors is long. The error I mention above is not in the errata either.
How does a book like this get out to the store shelves without proper editing?
If this is the best the author can do, please don't screw over the readers that are making their best efforts to get it right. If you would rather write a conceptual book, that's fine, just leave the details out.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 A Java WS book written by a C/C++ veteran?Oct 08, 2009
By George Jiang
The author appears to be a C/C++ veteran instead of a Java guru. Method names such as read_teams_from_file and variable names such as team_map are everywhere.
The author also appears to ignore other common industry practice or industry norm. E.g. in the RestfulTeams service (page 137), information about the new team to create is contained in the HTTP header rather than in the body of the HTTP request to demonstrate "the flexibility of REST-style services".
While it is interesting to show it is possible to develop a Dispatch client against a SOAP based service with HTTP_BINDING (page 158), the author does not even mention the better, easier and more concise alternative, i.e., to use the default SOAP_BINDING for the Dispatch client.
Section 5.3.2 HTTP BASIC Authentication (page 212) is another example of abusing a well defined and well understood IT industry terminology, while the true HTTP BASIC Authentication (on Tomcat) is covered under another section (page 219, Container-Managed Authentication and Authorization) without explicitly lableing it as such.
Overall, the first 120 pages is a good introduction to JAX-WS 2.1. The rest of the book appears to be filler from various lecture notes.
32 of 36 found the following review helpful:
 Weak Chapter on RESTJun 03, 2009
By L. P. Helland
I bought this book primarily to read about writing RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS which is one of the two topics mentioned in the product description.
I must say I am really disappointed with the coverage of this topic. Not many pages are devoted to it, and there are also some flaws in the presentation of REST and in the examples. For example when describing HTTP GET, the author equals "side-effect-free" with "idempotent", which is wrong. The Representations (the XML-formats) are strange, for GET they are serialized Java-objects without any semantics, for POST they are XMLs with the verb as the root-tag.
The presentation of JAX-RS (Jersey) is only 4 pages, and far from what I need to do something useful.
As for the rest of the book I don't know, so the rating is based on the presentation of REST and JAX-RS.
I bought this book together with the "Java SOA Cookbook" by Eben Hewitt, and I also have read "RESTful Web Services" by Leonard Richardson. The chapter on REST and JAX-RS in the "Java SOA Cookbook" if faaar better, and "RESTful Web Services" is a good general introduction to REST.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Good book, good examples but it all requires prior knowledgeMay 11, 2010
By Diogo Gonzaga
"Diogo Gonzaga"
This is a good book, although some examples don't work actually. The most appeal thing is this book is that examples include some codes from other Java APIs like XML for instance, and how to use them in WebServices development. About the main topic I would say this book was perfect for my needs. I'm new in Webservices and I could make a tour using SOAP and RESTful webservices, and it was very interesting for me.
I just want to warn some readers, specifically those who don't have prior knowledge in advanced concepts like dependency injection and servlets, that this book requires this knowledge.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Running after KalinOct 06, 2009
By Riccardo Audano
Disclaimer: I have very little appreciation for web services technology so my ideas on this book might suffer from that. My general opinion on the existence and success of web services technology is , to quote Dijkstra: "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better".
Anyhow, back to the review. This book has actually many fine points: it's code driven, to the point, informal and packed with interesting info...so why do I give it only 3 stars? Well.. because it s' too informal and packed with info. This book reminds me of an old professor of mine who was really a brilliant experimental physics researcher but a lousy teacher.. he would start explaining something, than his mind would jump to something barely related to that, and then, hey wait there is also this other thing I need to tell you about.. You get the point. This book has similar flaws, it touches many subjects but fails to dedicate enough space and coherence to give you a solid foundation on which to build on with your experience.
Web Services technology is too complicated (read an over-engineered mess) to be covered in sufficent solid detail in a 300 pages book. The author should have doubled the size of the book or halved the span of its contents. I hope he will choose the first option in a second edition. Till then, it remains more of a book written for its author then for its readers...
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