Java Web Services Unleashed

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"Java Web Services Unleashed" explores everything Java developers need for Web service development. Starting with the business considerations and roles of service-related technologies within the Java architecture, the authors then demonstrate applications using the "pillars" of Web service creation: SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. Next, the book introduces the JAX* pack - a set of Java APIs for XML programming that ease and enhance service development - using real-world examples explaining the importance of each JAX* API. Later chapters include a series of larger case studies of service development using many Java technologies including JSP and EJB.

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Waste of time and money.......2005-10-29

I bought this, hoping to be able to use it on a web services project I'm doing.

I find it's completely out of date. Both Sun's JWSDP and Apache Axis have moved on since this was written, and you'll get better information from their websites than you'll get from this book.

Don't bother with it.

Very good JWS book !!!.......2003-10-13

I have never worked with Web Services, but I have strong skill in Java. This book has opened me a new and interesting frontears on this topic. The Axis webapp that is explained as a very usefull tool to start working and putting up your first Web Service.
Max Pellizzaro.
http://www.maxpellizzaro.com

A good reference book to get you started........2003-04-28

Just as I stated in the title, it's a great book to start you with. It's written in a clear and precise manner where you could learn the basics of Java Web Services and not be intimidated by it.

Obsolete book.......2003-02-03

Part 1 (6 chapters) - Absolutely a waste of time, not worth a read. And the code examples are not related to JWSDP.

Part 2 (6 chapters) - Discusses on SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. The code discusses using a Older version of Apache SOAP and Apache Axis. The code needs a complete rewrite.

Part 3 - Discusses on JAXP, JAXB, JAXR, JAXM and JAXRPC. Good introductions but the JAXB chapter is based on DTD (which is obsoleted in the latest specs). JAXM and JAXRPC chapters just reproduces the Sun JWSDP tutorial...not much value addition.

Part 4 - Security, WSFL, WSIF (based on IBM Specs) currently these specs are obsolete no further releases.

It might've been a good book during 2002. The code and content needs an update to the latest specs and SOAP implementations.

Good introduction even to some less talked about topics.......2002-09-08

It is a good introductory book to web services standards like SOAP, WSDL and UDDI but also goes further and talks about topics like WSFL, WSIF which are not covered by all books on web services but are essential to any real business processes exposed as web services where flow control and service unit(s) choreagraphy is as important as the single unit service request/response. Java specifications relating to web services are also covered like JAXM and JAX-RPC. I wish more examples and code was given, perhaps even a chapter or two, for ebXML which may not be a part of web services standards but still uses SOAP and defines industry standards for business to business collaborations especially dealing with supply chain commerce issues.
I agree with a previous reviewer (John Sfikas) that this book alone isn't exactly an eye opener for experianced professionals who have been dabbling with all the tools mentioned in this book like Apache SOAP, Axis, WSTK, Tomcat, Jetty etc. and know the challenges facing B2B collaborations on the internet quite intimately, but this book combined with "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI" will give a much needed practical grounding to start making sophisticated web services in the real world. I highly recommend getting both these books but be prepared to use your brain and further what is presented in these books to deploy web services satisfying your needs. They will certainly not amount to spoon feeding you a near solution to your collaboration problems.

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Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
Robert Ryman
Manufacturer: Aperture
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0893814601
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart.

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Robert Ryman
Charles Wylie
Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0300114494

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Robert Ryman is considered one of the preeminent abstract painters of the last fifty years. This remarkable book features over two dozen of Ryman’s works from the 1960s to the present, all of which demonstrate his keen desire to investigate the essential properties of a painting—its color, surface, texture, support, and relationship to the wall on which it is displayed—in order to achieve direct and unmediated painterly effects.
The book comprises works from the artist’s own collection as well as from private and museum collections and includes a number of paintings that have never before been published. The beautiful illustrations document the artist’s career-long experimentation with and deviation from white—a basic, universal, and supposedly neutral color that becomes highly flexible and suggestive in Ryman’s hands—as well as his interest in using a variety of surfaces, from industrial metal to linen to canvas.
Ryman has created an unexpectedly varied, complex, and broad body of work within his chosen boundaries and continues to create some of today’s most challenging paintings.

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Contemplative and thought provoking collection

Contemporary Voices
Ann Temkin , Glenn Lowry , Vija Celmins , Howard Hodgkin , Susan Rothenberg , Richard Artschwager , Francesco Clemente , Damien Hirst , Richard Long , Ed Ruscha , Robert Ryman , and Frank Stella
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0870700898
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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This visually exciting book, which presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection. One of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States, the Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B. Marron, UBS's American Chairman, a Vice Chairman and former President of the Museum, and a Trustee of the Museum since 1975. This unique publication accompanies an exhibition of 74 of these outstanding works of art, including 44 that were a gift to the Museum in 2002. The works reproduced here include paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and mixed-media pieces by a wide and varied array of significant artists, including Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and many others. In addition, Ann Temkin, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, interviewed 11 of these artists for the book, producing illuminating conversations about how they work, the origins of their ideas, and other topics. The artists interviewed include Vija Celmins, Damien Hirst, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, and Lorna Simpson. Also included is an interview with Donald B. Marron by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art.

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Contemplative and thought provoking collection.......2006-01-07

I was surprised by the depth and range of this book. The visuals are cold, yet contemplative. It's like a Michael Snow film in book form.

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Robert Ryman: Works On Paper 1957-1964
Peter Blum , and Robert Ryman
Manufacturer: Peter Blum Edition
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0935875220
Release Date: 2004-06-15

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"The works in this exhibition catalogue record the time when Robert Ryman, then in his early twenties, was formulating his disciplined approach to painting. On off-white and translucent materials including wallpaper, a circular coffee filter, newsprint, and mylar, Ryman drew, tooled, brushed, and pressed his marks using a flat table to support the work. His decision to use the square as a consistent format for non-narrative work was set, and while he sporadically used color in these earliest works, he subsequently chose white almost exclusively in the process of eliminating all that was superfluous to a painting."

Thieves' World RPG Gift Set (Thieves World)

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Thieves' World RPG Gift Set (Thieves World)
Lynn Abbey , Robert J. Schwalb , Patrick O'Duffy , Gary Astleford , Aaron Rosenberg , and James Ryman
Manufacturer: Green Ronin Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Since 1979, Sanctuary has been the nastiest, ugliest and grittiest city in fantasy fiction. It is a place appropriately nicknamed "Thieves' World." The 14 anthologies of the Thieves' World series and the Sanctuary novel by Lynn Abbey have detailed this dark and dangerous city and the world in which it exists, through the literary voices of some of the most influential authors in modern fantasy fiction. Now, Sanctuary is yours to explore with the Thieves' World RPG Gift Set. With the Thieves' World Player's Manual, Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary, Murder at the Vulgar Unicorn and the Thieves' World Gazetteer, you have everything you need to run roleplaying games in Thieves' World using the world's most popular RPG. These books also provide never-before-seen info and an original short story direct from Lynn Abbey, making them a must for any Thieves' World fan.

Thieves' World: Shadowspawn's Guide To Sanctuary (Thieves' World d20 3.5 Roleplaying)

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Serviceable Guide

Thieves' World: Shadowspawn's Guide To Sanctuary (Thieves' World d20 3.5 Roleplaying)
Robert J. Schwalb , and James Ryman
Manufacturer: Green Ronin Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1932442499

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Sanctuary: fantasy's grimiest, nastiest, ugliest city. Shadowspawn: fantasy's most notorious thief. Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary: the indispensable Thieves' World handbook. In this weighty tome, you'll find an overview of the city's neighborhoods and surrounding areas, descriptions of important locations and key sites, advice for aspiring Thieves' World Game Masters, and full details on the principle characters of both eras, including such favorites as Lythande, Tempus, Ischade, and of course Shadowspawn himself. The book also expands the rules options for the Thieves' World Player's Manual with new backgrounds, cultures, prestige classes, and the mysterious and powerful Ur-words. Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary gives you everything you need to run roleplaying games in this classic fantasy city.

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Serviceable Guide.......2006-12-28

This is one of several manuals or modules available for the latest attempt at a Thieves' World RPG (Chaosium took the first swing back in 1981). Other volumes from this go-around include a player's handbook, a gazetteer, and an introductory adventure. Endorsed by Lynn Abbey, who was heavily involved throughout Green Ronin's development of the RPG material, this book gives a significant amount of background details on the city of Sanctuary, the core setting for the game.

What I actually found most valuable were the two lengthy sections on prominent NPCs from both the "classic" era (during the original run of the dozen or so anthologies in the '80s and '90s) and from the current period that was introduced in a fairly recent relaunch novel and a couple of ensuing story collections. There's plenty of stuff to be found on old favorites like Lythande, Jubal, Enas Yorl, Lalo, Shadowspawn, and even the vile Tempus, not to mention all of the assorted enemies such as Ischade and Roxanne. Biographies of the characters in the new age are also provided, although so far only Cauvin has really stood out.

I have a bit of a quibble with the map of Sanctuary, which seems dramatically out of scale. Note that if you are yearning for information about anything outside of the city, you must pick up the gazetteer, because this book does deliver what it promises: stuff about Sanctuary, and not much else. So if you really must know about Ranke and Ilsig and such, the gazetteer is a must-have (it is also packed with historical backgrounds on all of Sanctuary's neighbors).

I probably had bloated expectations for this book, but for whatever reason, I ended up mildly disappointed. I would rate it at 3.5 out of 5. Important note for RPG-types: as far as gaming goes, this setting is very heavily skewed toward fighters and thieves, unsurprisingly; clerics and mages would have a rough time of it. And it's definitely both a low-tech and low-magic world, which is true to the source material.

Overall, a good resource for character backgrounds and some commentary on the city.

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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
Agnes Martin , Drew Daniel , Deyan Dudjic , Gia Kourlas , Mark Taylor , Robert Irwin , Douglas Wheeler , Carl Andre , Robert Gober , Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Donald Judd , Ellsworth Kelly , Sol Lewitt , Richard Long , Brice Marden , Bruce Nauman , Robert Rauschenberg , Robert Ryman , Frank Stella , and James Turrell
Manufacturer: Guggenheim Museum
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 089207308X
Release Date: 2004-04-02

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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, Singular Forms begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic White Painting (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary art: the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the attention to issues of perception. After a prologue including other examples of radical, monochrome paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt, Singular Forms explores how these parallel artistic strategies were manifest in Minimalist and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s through the work of Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Lawrence Weiner, among others. Minimalism's impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists begins with Postminimalism, which utilized the movement's deliberate paucity of formal means to explore a range of concerns including process, the dematerialization of the object, the performative nature of art, and the structural properties of light. Artists such as Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, James Turrell, and Richard Long are included in this section. What follows are artists schooled in the deconstructivist tendencies of Postmodernism--such as Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Roni Horn--who resuscitated Minimalism as a style, infusing its unitary, nonreferential forms with content to bring to the fore trenchant cultural issues. Singular Forms concludes with recent work that shares the look of classic Minimalist art, but uses it to communicate deeply personal, political, or poetic messages. Also examined is the reach of Minimalism and Conceptualism beyond the visual arts into film, choreography, music, design, and architecture.

Art Ed Books and Kit: Robert Ryman (Art Ed Kits)

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Art Ed Books and Kit: Robert Ryman (Art Ed Kits)
BORIS JANET
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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ASIN: 0810967863

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Abrams' Art Ed Books and Kits provide everything children need to create art using the approaches of world-renowned painters and sculptors!

Inspiration for budding young artists Art Ed Books and Kits come with whatever types of materials the artist actually uses or used, such as paper, nontoxic paint, air-drying clay, oil pastels, colored pencils, cameras, pencils, brushes, art wire, palettes, and/or glue. In each kit is a biography of the artist illustrated with full-color art reproductions as well as photographs of the artist at work, and an eight-page activity book providing easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to help children create their own masterpieces.

Each kit has been approved by the original artist or his/her estate. A portion of the proceeds from Art Ed Books and Kits benefits Studio in A School.

As a painter of abstract white paintings, Robert Ryman (b. 1930) explores subtle effects of color and texture to create his stark but visually rich compositions.

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Aasimar & Tiefling: A Guidebook To The Planetouched (Races of Renown)
Robert J. Schwalb , and James Ryman
Manufacturer: Green Ronin Publishing
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ASIN: 1932442138

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Your Planar Adventures Begin Now! The latest book in the critically acclaimed Races of Renown series fully details aasimar and tieflings, as well as half-fiends, half-celestials, and many of their cousin races. If you've been looking for an easy way to integrate planar elements into your campaign, look no further. Aasimar & Tiefling is your one stop shop for planar adventuring, and includes: Seven new planetouched races, including the jinx, nergaz, and silvan. A complete rules system for creating your own planetouched races. Full PC write-ups for cambions and nephilim. Dozens of ancestry feats, which allow planetouched characters to gain some of the spell-like, supernatural, and extraordinary abilities of full-blooded outsiders. A bevy of planar prestige classes (such as the Astral Reaver, Planomancer, Warrior Maiden of the Valkyrie, and Xen Chi Mystic) that includes Epic-level progressions. Dozens of new spells, including adaptation, magma burst, and SharaA's scornful subjugation. New magic items, like the staff of chaos, planar chronometer, and chime of dismissal. Planar perils, a collection of new monsters like the chaos horror, fundamental gel, and organ thief. Bursting with new rules and options, Aasimar & Tiefling gives you all the tools needed to build and play planetouched characters and to take your campaign to the planes.

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