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Title: No coverage of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, or standard Java APIs
Review: The author has chosen to build his own completely customized web services architecture. He doesn't even mention SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, or any of the standard Java APIs: JAX-RPC, JAXR, or JAXM. Instead, he designs his own protocols using XML and servlets. Unless you're looking for job security by writing software noone else understands, skip this book.At this point (June 2002), your best bet for learning Java web services is to download Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack and go through the tutorial. The best book I've seen is "Building Web Services With Java" (Sams) but the book just skims most of the APIs because they're so new. But it has good coverage of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.
