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Title: Long-winded, tied to Websphere and VAJ
Review: This is not a good choice if you want to learn how to write web services quickly. The book is long-winded, covering 280 pages before starting the first example of an actual web service. It also uses an obsolete version of IBM's Websphere (v3.5) for its examples. There are several pages of screen shots showing how to use Websphere v3.5 to create and deploy a web service even though the author says "This is not a book on Websphere". Make up your mind. What is even worse is that he wastes several pages showing how to use the ultra-bloated Visual Age for Java to develop web services.One goal of web services is to be implementation neutral so tying the explanation of web services development to particular tools goes against the spirit of web services.On the positive side the author has some useful insights and tips on the technologies involved in web services. He also provides a web site with working web services.
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