Product Description

With this example-driven book, you get a quick, practical, and thorough introduction to Java's API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS). "Java Web Services: Up and Running" takes a clear, no-nonsense approach to these technologies by providing you with a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing a sample application. You'll not only learn how to write web services from scratch, but also how to integrate existing services into your Java applications. All the source code for the examples is available from the book's companion website. With "Java Web Services: Up and Running", you will: understand the distinction between SOAP-based and REST-style services; focus on the WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) service contract; understand the structure of a SOAP message and the distinction between SOAP versions 1.1 and 1.2 ; learn various approaches to delivering a Java-based RESTful web service, and for consuming commercial RESTful services; know the security requirements for web services, both SOAP- and REST-based; and learn how to implement JAX-WS in various application servers. Ideal for students and experienced programmers alike, "Java Web Services: Up and Running" is the concise guide you need to get going on this technology right away.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24089 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

About the Author
Martin Kalin has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is a professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. He has co-written a series of books on C and C++ and written a book on Java for programmers. He enjoys commercial programming and has co-developed large distributed systems in process scheduling and product configuration.

Customer Reviews

Great book for getting started with Java & SOA
This book is great to get started with SOA and Java. It has plenty of examples, is clear, shows different solutions and is easy to read. A few things I would have liked to see: examples of how SOAP & REST work together and how to choose between the two (it is VERY briefly discussed). One small issue is that it looks like the writer tried to fill space by copying the same source code across several pages. I think snippets would be just as useful. Last item: the book heavily discusses how to use ant/ compilers to generate code. Alas, there is no discussion of how to use each technology with an IDE (eclipse or any other).

Concerning IDEs
This is more of a footnote to the previous review, rather than a review as such. Helpful anyhow, I hope. The author mentions in his preamble that he has deliberately avoided assuming that the reader is using an IDE (and the variety of IDEs available could confuse matters anyhow). The reason he gives is that IDEs take care of a lot of the nitty gritty for us, which is nice, but in a book for learning the nitty gritty it is better to confront it in all its detail. That way we don't let the ever-so-helpful IDE de-skill us. It's only like pilots wanting to land the plane by skill rather than by wire.