Java Web Services: Using Java In Service-Oriented Architectures

Concept is written well.

At 250 pages, this book is a good introduction to Java web services but there just isn't enough material here to do serious Java development. The coverage of WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI gives a good overview but is too short for some actually deploying a web service. And there are only 26 pages devoted to JAX-RPC and JAXM, the most important Java APIs for web services. A better book is "Building Web Services with Java" (Sams) but even that has only a cursory review of Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack. If you're a serious developer, you'll need to download JWSDP from Sun and go through the tutorial to learn the APIs.