]I am a great fan of yours. I liked your EJB book very much. Hope to win you Web Services book as well.
RMH>>Thanks for the complement. Its always nice to hear that from readers.
Some questions for you
1. Does your book cover Web Services basics?
RMH> You bet. Acutally it only assumes you know
Java. It provides a complete tutorial on XML,
SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, JAXR, and JAXP (Harold's book, which is 800 pages is goes iinto JAXP in more depth).
The book can be read by complet neophytes or experts a like. Its organized to serve both audiances and everything in between.
2. How do you compare J2EE web services with .NET?
RMH>I see a lot of companies using these technologies together, but I don't really compare them much myself. I prefer Java.
3. Any thing that you feel is missing in J2EE web services specification?
RMH>Well, I though the deployment descriptors were just to complex. Also would have like to see them pull required support for RPC/Encoded messaging, but over all I think its excellent.
4. what is the future of Webservices?
RMH> I think Web services have a great future. Now that we are really addressing interop via the WS-I Basic Profile. There is a big shift in the industry to SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) where are not specific to Web services (SOAP, WSDL, etc.) but they seem to be a prefect match for each other.