Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services

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Another Mirror

By Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers, Apress, December 2003

"readable, accessible and eminently practical..."— TechBookReport

"...quite a good book about writing software to consume and provide web services."— Slashdot

While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds.

Using a decidedly hands-on approach, authors Alexander Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers present extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source tools available on Windows, Linux, and OS X).

Book Info:

Provides a hands-on introduction to the power of Web Services. Based on the publicly available Google and Amazon Web Services, this book presents a variety of cross-platform examples showing how to create, provide, deploy, and consumer Web Services. Softcover.

Tom Myers

Tom Myers studied physics in Bogota and Buenos Aires before receiving his bachelor's degree from St. John's College, Santa Fe, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. A software developer and consultant, he has been working mostly on Java/XML projects for the past few years; some earlier research in parallelism and in functional programming languages seems to be coming back to life, within XSLT. In addition to joint publications with Alexander Nakhimovsky, he is the author of a book and several articles on theoretical computer science.

Alexander Nakhimovsky

Alexander Nakhimovsky received a master's degree in mathematics from Leningrad University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University, with a graduate minor in computer science. He has been teaching computer science at Colgate University since 1985. He is the author (jointly with Tom Myers) of several books and book chapters, including JavaScript Objects, Professional Java XML Programming, and Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition, as well as books and articles on linguistics and AI.

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