Product Description
JAX: Java APIs for XML Kick Start covers the JAX APIs – fundamental for development of Java-based Web service applications as well as other e-Commerce applications requiring the exchange and manipulation of data. The book includes an overview of Web service fundamentals including SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL, all of which will be built upon in later examples. The book then covers the current set of JAX APIs for data processing, for messaging, for writing data to registries and for calling remote applications.
Each API is covered from an architectural and implementation perspective, using real-world examples and case studies throughout to illustrate their usefulness. The author will demonstrate both Web service and traditional JAX applications, giving a complete picture of the uses of JAX. The final chapter looks ahead to new developments and new APIs in progress at Sun.
One of the best books available yet on Java, a standard popularised by Scott McNeally’s Sun Microsystems.
The book obviously is not written by natural writers, but the honesty and the knowledge of subject is pretty obvious.
Rating: 5 / 5
I browsed through this book at Borders and liked it a lot.
It appeared to be clearly written, fairly comprehensive, and nicely layed out.
I was mostly interested in the sections on web services with JAX-RPC.
After taking it home and spending a few hours with it, I took it back to Borders for a refund. The problem is, although it is copyrighted 2003, it already seems to be out of date. The JAX-RPC code walk-through depends on Sun’s xrpcc tool. That tool is now deprecated, and no longer included in the Java Web Services Developers’ Pack (JWSDP). Java is up to version 1.3 now, but this book is based on version 1.0.
O’ Reilly’s WEB SERVICES IN A NUTSHELL is written to a more recent version of the JWSDP (version 1.1, I think). However it is a much different sort of book, more of a reference than a “kickstart” tutorial. So I hope Chowdhury and Choudhary update their book, at least with some postings on the publisher’s site (because I could not fiind an “update” or “errata” reference there).
Rating: 3 / 5