Developing Java Web Services: Architecting and Developing Secure Web Services Using Java

Description: ... Of the 12 or so books I have purchased this past year this one is simply the worst. Members of our web services study group have lost interest in part to the overly obtuse, repetitive and boring style of this book. Themes that could be concisely and clearly stated in one or two paragraphs are unnecessarily drawn out over 10-12 repetitive paragraphs. Code examples are sometimes not clear, or othertime simply won't work as written. For example, an example of XSLT makes no mention that it relies on a bit of XML presented [previously in the book.] The authors are equally careless in their use of language : "A tag is considered to be an empty tag if it stands by itself without any attributes." This is wrong! An empty tag can have attributes but there is no body text in the element. In addition, many of the XML examples have incorrect indentation, making them difficult to read. And there are so many typographical mistakes that simple passages become challenging to read (e.g. referring to .. ISBN: 0471236403 Release Date: February, 2003 List Price: $35.00 Author: Ramesh Nagappan, Robert Skoczylas, Rima Patel Sriganesh Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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