Product Description
SOAP will be the universal “application glue” for tomorrow’s widely distributed systems. It’s simple, based on widely deployed standards such as XML and HTTP, and will enable virtually any business software to communicate across the Internet. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML offers a practical, hands-on introduction to SOAP that demonstrates how to leverage this technology on multiple platforms, using virtually every leading programming language. Seely begins by reviewing the history of distributed computing, and demonstrating how SOAP solves distributed computing problems that DCOM and CORBA failed to solve. He presents basic introductions to XML, and then to SOAP’s syntax — including SOAP’s use of HTTP headers, the SOAP payload, error handling, data types, encoding structures, and more. You’ll walk through building a simple SOAP server for Windows; then discover how SOAP can be extended to support multiple platforms and programming languages. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML contains detailed chapters on utilizing SOAP with each of five leading programming languages: C++, Perl, Python, Visual Basic, and Java. The book concludes by reviewing today’s leading SOAP servers. For all developers and system integrators constructing Internet applications, applications written in multiple programming languages, or applications that integrate diverse enterprise systems; and for any IT professional evaluating SOAP.
It’s understandable that the author donot have much time in
writing this book. But I think both the publisher and the
author should be serious on writing a book.
Overall, it’s not professional!
Rating: 2 / 5
Read the previous review to understand the waste
of time and money this book may cause you.
It does very little to really describe XML or SOAP in the matter
that is needed. Key elements are skipped or automatically
assumed, while simple concepts are explained in great detail.
uggh!
Rating: 1 / 5
There are two extremely catagories of books.
1. Explain unclear concepts with clear logic and clear language.
2. Explain clear concepts with unclear logic and unclear languege.
This book definitely belongs to the second catagory.
How hard XML scheme syntax could be? This book can screw all of them up.
It wastes of your time if you did not already know what SOAP is.
Rating: 1 / 5
The book explains SOAP on a more advanced level! it provides a custom SOAP implementation written in C++. The book is all over the place. It gets quite confusing for novices that simply want to get started quickly using SOAP.
Rating: 1 / 5
Sorry to say, but I felt this book was no more than a first draft . At the end of it, I had no clear idea on how to write a SOAP message without refering to many other books or the spec itself. Sure the book gave me a basic overview of SOAP, but not one that I could take away and use, and gave me an overall impression that SOAP is complicated and messy. This was a rushed effort, and a waste of time. If this is one of the best books available on SOAP, then it doesn’t say much for the technical authors currently working on it.
Rating: 1 / 5