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Web Services: Theory and Practice
Published: 1 January 2005 Can you trust a book that has graphics that have clearly been reproduced from JPEGs at too low a resolution or too high a compression? OK, let’s try to be charitable, but it’s a sad fact that not being able to get the technology right in one department does cast doubt on the overall competence of the volume. What we have in this book can best be described as a detailed overview of web services. It doesn’t quite get down to the level of actually building applications, but it is more detailed than a management overview. There are also some strange passages that inform the reader of the politics of the current situation – a sort of “what Bill Gates did” type of coverage. They are strange because the author sometimes says things that most of wouldn’t think of saying because they would be obvious. However, perhaps there are beginners who have missed the subtlety of the web services revolution. The book tries as much as possible to be technology neutral and it covers .NET and Java equally. This isn’t a book for anyone actually trying to create a web service, and it is probably too detailed to pass up to ‘pure’ management level people. For a reader with good but perhaps rusty technical knowledge who wants to get their bearings in the new world of web services this might be a good choice – just try to ignore the fuzzy pictures. |
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