Developing Web Services with Apache Axis Review

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Developing Web Services with Apache Axis ReviewWith all the 5 star reviews here I really had my hopes up for this book. I really, really wanted to like it and, to some degree, I did.
This is a very short book. I'm not complaining, I remember the day when excellent technical books were only 200 pages. However, these small outstanding references were kind of like Unix tools - they covered one subject and covered it well. Mr. Tong, on the other hand attempts to teach us Tomcat, Eclipse, Axis, and PKI in a 165 page book.
While I personally didn't need the tutorials on Tomcat, Eclipse, or PKI I thought they were very well done. Unfortunately I didn't feel this way about the Axis portion of the book. When reading the information about Axis it mostly seemed to me to be:
1. Do this.
2. Now do this.
3. Press enter.
4. See, it worked.
OK, so it worked. I still have very little understanding of why it worked or what other options Axis has to offer.
I also felt the book gave the impression that Tomcat-Eclipse-Axis were joined at the hip. I would have prefered to learn the workings of Axis so that I would be comfortable using it on WebLogic or WebSphere. Maybe using Netbeans as my IDE or maybe just using a command line. In my opinion, Mr. Tong does not deliver this kind of Axis understanding.
Lastly, I'd like to comment on the grammer used in the book. It is clear that Mr. Tong is not a native Engling speaker. Don't get me wrong, Mr. Tong certainly speaks English better than I speak a second language. However, I believe editing by a native English speaker would improve the readability of the book. I didn't really have any big problems understanding the text but the grammer does make it hard to read. In many cases I had to read a sentence several times to get the point.Developing Web Services with Apache Axis OverviewAxis, Apache Axis, Web services, SOAP, WSDL, Computer, Science, Technology, Internet, World, Wide, Web, Programming

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