internet applications

I had a hard time reading this book. It is good in the sense that I got some of the code working pretty quickly, but once I started to ask WHY things worked, I was lost with the book.

I had no idea about Web Services before reading this book. The book presents detailed information - which almost works - for 5 different implementations of SOAP-based Web-Services Plattforms. After which the example is depending on one special - non open source - plattform. Porting the code to AXIS was not straigth forward because I could not find out what the different statements in the example did.

I hope the next book on Web Services provides more useful information.

This book does not have any real-world examples. The specifications mentioned in this book are also dated. The content in this book is a little dated. For a current book on Web Services check out Java Web Services Architecture published by Morgan Kaufman.

This book has a random collection of topics. I cannot believe a publisher actually published it. It discusses DTDs and XSLTs in great detail while completely ignoring XML Schemas and SOAP basics. I absolutely decided to return the book when I found a section discussing viruses - specifically the ILOVEYOU virus. If Amazon provided a way to give this a negative rating, I would gladly do so.