As I was writing the book, I purchased and walked through some of the books that were mentioned in the thread here as they were just arriving on the scene. I would have to say that the Axis documentation on the web site was the best reference at the time. Having a book written by members of the Axis team would be EXCELLENT. It would be even better if that book could be an "open source" book and be used as the documentation for the project itself (just a thought ;-)
The approach I took with my book was to stay out of the SOAP and infrastructure. I found very few books that strived to do this, most Web Service books spend a lot of time in nuts and bolts and I wanted to spend time applying Web Services. Frankly, the book was challenging to write because of the quickly moving platforms and specifications. I ended up circling around a set of relatively stable patterns, but still relatively basic. The patterns I applied are applicable beyond Web Services and I wrote them to ensure they could be applied to other environments, though the examples and implementation details revolve around Web Services.
At any rate, I thought I would put a "shameless plug" in for my own book and give a little information about the book if anyone's seen it on the shelf and was curious why there wasn't the standard "XML, SOAP, MESSAGE BODIES, UDDI, etc..." chapters in it ;-)
There is a sample chapter from the book and a table of contents available at:
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=154
----------------------------------------- Paul B. Monday - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author Web Service Design Patterns: Java Edition The Jiro Technology Programmer's Guide SanFrancisco Component Framework: An Introduction
Bhanu Pabreja wrote:
Hello everybody,
After the release of AXIS 1.1 I think somebody (the committers ofcourse) should write a book on WebServices with Axis.
Cause I think then only can we developers have a direction about this very important topic.
Please put your views and if there is already some book project going on kindly point me towards that.
Thanx a lot.
Bhanu Pabreja
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