Not a bad book - Good fundamentals less on development focus

This book is all about Web services platform architecture and standards. It cooks well on most of the alphabet soup of web services standards. This book would guide you instead of browsing over the internet for what is what. The book falls short on guidelines for implementing them. The book also a bit old in its evolving specifications and endorsed standards coverage particularly less about WS-I and WS-Security* standards. That is disappointing.

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• Great Theortical Reference to the WS-* Stack
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  Very good conceptual and technical introduction to the Web Services like SOA components
• Not a bad book - Good fundamentals less on development focus
• Explains all you need to know about the Web Services Platform
• Too high level