XML Web Services and SOAP
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Hi All, Can anyone recommend a good book for XML Web Services. I have been tasked with learning more about this but not sure what book to start with. Thanks In Advance Tony
I have ‘Real World XML Web Services By Yasser Shohoud’ and have gotten a lot out of it. This book is aimed at VB and VB.Net programmer if you don’t fall into that category I would try something else. My one complaint about the book is the examples do not get complex enough. There are some sample chapters and articles by Yasser at http://www.learnxmlws.com/learn/tutors.aspx. A second book I have is ‘Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET by Dino Esposito‘ it is a very good in-depth book about XML programming, it doesn’t touch web services as deeply as Yasser’s book but it has a lot of good stuff in it. All the code in the book is written in C#. In learning how to program web services I still have had question that I wasn’t able to answer with the books but I think you will have that with ever thing. Both these books are aimed at .net web services so keep that in mind when considering them. Note, just because I think these are good books doesn’t mean you will agree. I say that because Yasser’s book had several good reviews on amazon and one horrible one. Basically it comes down to were the books worth the $30 I paid for each of them, yes. Jason W.