which is the best book/tutorial for a Web Services newbie?

Question

[sorry for my english]

Hi, I'm a Newbie in Web Services. I've a java desktop app and some JSP/Servlets working fine, and I need to comm. both with the logic, (must be) using java.

Which book/tutorial/how-to you recomend?

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm a big fan of Spring Web Services: http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/sites/1.5/reference/html/tutorial.html

Answer 2

One candidate is Programming Jakarta Struts from O'Reilly. This book explains some of the basic notions of web services in the introductory chapters.

Answer 3

http://www.agileskills2.org/DWSAA/index.html -- Axis2 book: Developing Web Services with Apache Axis2.

Answer 4

It depends on which application server/web service framework you plan to use. If you plan to use WebLogic http://e-docs.bea.com/wlw/docs100/guide/webservices/WSTutorial/tutWebSvcIntro.html

Answer 5

After you go through your tutorial, you'll want to build an application which consumes available web services. See this link for sites where you can pull available webservices,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192723/is-there-somewhere-i-can-search-for-available-webservices

There are several good ones mentioned that you can use.

Answer 6

If you would like to dig a little deeper into some of the concepts behind web services (SOA, et al.) I would recommend SOA using java web services by Mark Jensen found here: http://www.amazon.com/SOA-Using-Java-Web-Services/dp/0130449687/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1230047736&sr=8-1

Answer 7

Web Services Essentials Distributed Applications with XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI & WSDL
Ethan Cerami

Publisher: O'Reilly