Web services

Restful Web Services
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, David Heinemeier Hansson
Average Customer Review: based on 46 reviews.
Customer Review: Good to hear someone make a convincing argument for a web-based services protocol versus the complexity of SOAP.

RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
by Subbu Allamaraju
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: As is common with O'Reilly's Cookbooks, the style of this book is very terse and to the point. There is not much handholding. The intended audience seems to be system architects who already know what they are doing, but who need to know what they should be aiming for when they want to be RESTful. The "recipes" in this Cookbook are mo...

RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5
by Jon Flanders
Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: There are two things I really liked about Flanders' book: (1) It has a gradual progression from concept to implementation that is both easy to read and very structured. It made the whole book very valuable. The initial section on REST is concise and either enlightening or revision, depending on what you already know. The transition t...

Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI
by Eric Newcomer
Average Customer Review: based on 26 reviews.
Customer Review: I run across this book and I enjoyed reading it I found it to be very detailed and it offers the latest technologies in Web services

Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (2nd Edition)
by Steve Graham, Doug Davis, Simeon Simeonov, Glen Daniels, Peter Brittenham, Yuichi Nakamura, Paul Fremantle, Dieter Koenig, Claudia Zentner
Average Customer Review: based on 36 reviews.
Customer Review: This book has helped me immensely in implementing some really intense production quality data interchange across systems using web services. This book will quickly help you understand the entire XML stack of technologies that you will need for Web Services. The authors have uniquely enabled the readers to develop an understanding of...

Programming Web Services with SOAP
by James Snell, Doug Tidwell, Pavel Kulchenko
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need. If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want. If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need.

J2EE Web Services: XML SOAP WSDL UDDI WS-I JAX-RPC JAXR SAAJ JAXP
by Richard Monson-Haefel
Average Customer Review: based on 32 reviews.
Customer Review: Perfect book for a beginer. The book starts from basics to leads complex points in a balanced manner.

RESTful Java Web Services
by Jose Sandoval
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: I bet this book will be outdated in a year, but I like that it's a straightforward approach current status of RESTful frameworks in java.

Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More
by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, Donald F. Ferguson
Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews.
Customer Review: What do you get when you put a number of Web Services gurus from IBM in a room for a while? You'll get the "Web Services Platform Architecture" book. In short, all the authors that assisted in writing this book are Web services experts from IBM who have either wrote the specs or assisted in writing the Web services specs in question....

RESTful PHP Web Services
by Samisa Abeysinghe
Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
Customer Review: This book does a great job of rapidly exposing the user to RESTFul design patterns while at the same time providing many great examples for reference. By the end of the book, even a novice programmer will be comfortable with RESTFul web service design. You do need experience with PHP to work through the samples.