Programming Web Services with SOAP Review

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Book:		Programming Web Services with SOAP
Subject:		Programming Web Services with SOAP Review
Date:		2002-03-11 06:09:22
From:		Hans Wolter

Rating: The first 2 chapters of this book are an overview of the problem web services. They are okay. But when I started to work with the examples of chapters 3 and 4 I got very angry. No example worked out of the box. The authors don't tell a beginner which steps are needed to get the examples running. I've spent a lot of time to get them running. But I'm very frustrated. E. g. the installation of SOAP::Lite is a real frustrating adventure. It is not mentioned that you have to install IO-Stringy, MailTools, MIME-Lite, MIME-Tools. You have to find out yourself where you can get those packages. When I tried to install jabber I got version conflicts etc. Actually I've have problems with the publisher example, because with this example I can't login. The result of my login trial is: "Caught Exception: SOAPException = SOAP-ENV:Client, No Deserializer found to deserialize a 'http://www.soaplite.com/authInfo:authInfo' using encoding style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'." My opinion about a good book is, that there should be a lot of examples that explain the basis of a problem. Those examples should work out of the box. Then I've the possibilty to reach the aim of understanding the hype web services. With the introduced examples I'm not able to. I hope the authors will do better with the next publishing of this book.