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Understanding SOA with Web Services - Eric Newcomer
Posted: July 4th, 2007, 4:22pm CEST by Mr.Blue

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Eric Newcomer's UNDERSTANDING WEB SERVICES was the best of the first crop of Web services books - a no-nonsense guide to the confusing thicket of XML standards that helped many people (including myself) get a handle on what was going on as we all tried to figure out what this XML-over-HTTP stuff was all about. That's one reason I was happy to see this new title cross my desk; the recent explosion of new standards and new ways to hook things together has left things more confused than ever. The book doesn't disappoint. Newcomer and co-author Greg Lomow do an excellent job of explaining why service-oriented architectures are important, show how Web services enable building SOAs (while pointing out that plenty of organizations managed to put together SOAs on older technologies long before Web services entered the pictures), and help navigate through all those confusing standards. 

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