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Title: A little disappointing...
Review: This is a decent book if you are interested in a theoretical treatment of web services but not in building systems that produce and consume web services. Yes, there are examples, but because the book is not tied to a specific web service platform it is not well grounded. I've been working with web services for over a year now. It is easy to speculate about web services architecture in the abstract. However, when you pick a platform to develop web services on, you quickly discover that you have to keep compromising your architecture because of various limitations. This book is unrealistic: it ignores many of the constraints of the real world. Perhaps it is meant for architects that don't have to actually build any software.
