Title: Fine for what it is
Review: This is a fine architectural work on SOAP and related standards, of which there are many. It's a walkthrough from the basics that only covers actual coding at the end. Though even then it's not very deep. That's not bad though since it really is an architectural level book.I do take the book to task on two accounts though. First it doesn't even mention Ajax, which is odd for a recent publication. And second it doesn't cover REST at all an only passingly mentions XML-RPC. The author says SOAP took over and is now the majority of the services going on over the web. When in reality the use of RSS and REST style XML protocols is, in terms of bandwidth, is crushing SOAP. Regardless, REST and Ajax are worth mentions here.
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