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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. ... Read more

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Waste of time and money
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I find it's completely out of date.Both Sun's JWSDP and Apache Axis have moved on since this was written, and you'll get better information from their websites than you'll get from this book.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 !!!
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.
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A good reference book to get you started.
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
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
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. ... Read more

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Having discovered that a degree from Harvard does not mean automatic life bliss, Katinka O'Toole finds the highlight of her day has become the arrival of the mail, not because she is expecting something, but because of her crush on Louie Capetti, her gorgeous mailman. Simultaneous."Amazon.com Review
Mameve Medwed knows the neurotic, crazy-imagination mind ofthe freelance writer: the mornings spent toiling over first and secondand third drafts, with an ear ever tuned toward the creak of themailbox, only to find yet another batch of returned manuscripts. Ifthis scenario sounds familiar, then you'll probably find comfort fromMedwed's new first novel, Mail, an amusing send-up of thewriter's life. Our heroine, Katinka O'Toole, is the ex-wife of a Joycescholar (once her professor at Harvard, naturally) who sends off asteady stream of short stories from her rented Cambridgeapartment. She's obsessed not only with the mail; she's in love withthe mailman. An entertaining read, and a good gift for the mother whodoesn't understand why you don't just meet a nice lawyer and settledown already. ... Read more

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If you haven't read Mameve Medwed...try this
I loved this book a lot.So very funny and I fell in love with everyone in it!It's one of those rare books you carry around in your head and heart long after the final page, missing your friends and wondering what they're doing.I smile just thinking about it.

Amusing Romp Thru Cambridge, & Frustrated Relationships..
This is a very funny 1st person Ivy League tour through love, lust, academia, literary attempts, mother-daughter feelings, friendships, all told at a breakneck speed, with great humor, and laughs thrown in for good measure! The apartment scenes in the Harvard neighborhood were great, as well as the dining (IHOP, especailly) and general descriptions. Worth a few fun hours! But are there really schools which "teach" 8 year old boys about parenthood by making him carry a sack of flour? Maybe, but a strange way to teach!Also, the infatuation with the mailman never really rang true to this jaded reader, but all is fair in love and war! And the ending seemed a bit unfocused, but probably still realistic. Perfect for a sequel!

Genre Fiction- It is what it is
I would certainly classify this novel as genre fiction- A Romantic Comedy. As with all genre fiction, it is what it is. You either like it or you don't. But you can't try to analyze it into something that it's not. If you try, you'll only be disappointed. My advice with this novel is to enjoy it for what it is- a nice romantic comedy. You can try to break it down in terms of whatever literary concept suits you, but that might be unfair to the author and the book. After all, would you analyze something more literary from a genre fiction perspective? Never. So why try to analyze this from a literary perspective? It's a very light read and thoroughly enjoyable when absorbed from the right perspective.

Pleasant, amusing light romantic comedy.
Medwed's debut novel relates the romantic and literary exploits of Katrinka O'Toole.Given thatr Katrinka is mostly a frustrated wirter and lover both, the exploits are somewhat chaotic, obsessive and disjointed--but that's where the fun comes in.

Over and above an adept hand at romantic comedy, Medwed has a nifty ability to cleverly encapsulate and parody the aloofness, snobbery and liberal goings and general absurdities attendant to life in and around Harvard, a skill which also adds to the fun of the book.

This is a debut novel and some of the expected flaws attendant to such an effort are present--the books a tad disjointed, a few of the characters are mere characatures--but overall it's a fun book & a pleasant read.It's plane or beach fare-not too demanding and mostly rewarding.

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Katinka O'Toole is 35 years old and is recovering from a short marriage with a Harverd Proffeser. She is strugling to find her place in the writing world when she gets a breakthrough letter who is delivered by the mailman she has fallen in love with.

The man Katinka's mother is dating, who happens to live in her apartments,his daughter and son-in-law have the perfect blind date for Katinka.Jake Barnes is brought into her the picture. He is a classy guy and very polite although he has curly red hair on his knuckles. With all the love and madness surrounding her, she is just having fun.

This book was cute and full of suprises and fun. If you enjoy saucy romances, this book is for you but if you get bored easliy and you are more in to anger and death, this book definently isn't for you. ENJOY ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The National Interest, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 4923 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A World Without the West.(international relations)
Author: Naazneen Barma
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Date: July 1, 2007
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Will markets, investment, and technology--rather than tanks and missiles--be the key elements in the new world order? When politics catches up with the global whirlwind of shifting economic capabilities, the international system will look very different than how it does today. This book explores how the momentous dislocations of economic power in the world--the might of Asia, the unification of Europe, the relative decline of the United States--will reshape global security issues. The authors explain power and interests are changing and how the loss of industrial and technological leadership is undermining the exercise of American power. They demonstrate how these changes may presage an entirely new era that would reconceive the very nature of security, redefine the international power game, and resituate its players. This volume first sets the stakes--drawing the links between economic capacities and security. Then the players are covered, detailing the relative positions of Asia, Europe, and United States. The book concludes with a warning that the emerging distribution of economic capabilities does not insure a natural extension of the present international security arrangement. At least two other directions are possible, each implying not only new security concerns at home, but a transformation in the international security system as a whole. ... Read more

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Still relevant and interesting
In this book, published in 1992, a group of academics from the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy have written a series of brilliant and provocative essays on the economic foundations of the next security system, that is, of the XXI century. They define three broad scenarios: a) Controlled multilateralism; b) coexistence of blocks; and c) neomercantilism.

So far, it seems that they were right in predicting that the most likely and desirable outcome would be some form of controlled multilateralism. Certainly, it could be said that coexistence of blocks is also a reality, but we are seeing a lot more interrelation between these blocks than what the scenario took into account. Some countries have built institutional bridges across the blocks, like Mexico, which belongs to NAFTA, but also has a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, several Latin American countries, Israel, and is now negotiating one with Japan, beyond its membership in APEC.

The security system seems to stay also within controlled multilateralism, as actions on the former Yugoslavia and Irak show. Summing up, the book's arguments and points are still relevant to analyze the world's options regarding this new century. The interplay between the economic and the security systems are clearly defined, and the tone of the book is objective, neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic. It's good analysis, even if not each and every detail is still accurate. Recommended for students of very different specialties: international economics, national security, prospective studies, etc. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The National Interest, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 4120 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Getting to no: the limits of multilateralism.
Author: James M. Goldgeier
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Date: December 22, 2005
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Exploring the impact of globalization-the increase in mobility of capital, goods, ideas, and people -on governance structures in the modern European political economy, the contributors to this volume evaluate a set of propositions about the effects of globalization in the context of several significant empirical settings: corporate governance, "sin regulation," regional economic development, fiscal reform, new equity markets, and legitimating discourse.This book brings together arguments about globalization, European integration, and a broad set of observations about new or unconventional governance structures that are developing in domestic politics, political economy, and international relations within Europe. What mix of causal forces from the global, European, and national level accounts for these changes? Is Europe "special" in any sense? And what are the implications for Europe´s relationship with global structures and institutions? ... Read more

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Price Theory and Applications STUDY GUIDE. STEVEN E. LANDSBURG AND WILLIAM V. WEBER ... Read more

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Excellent!
Book arrived a day earlier than promised, and is in excellent condition.I would HIGHLY recommend this seller.

Excellent introduction.
As other reviewers have pointed out the book gives a clear, readable introduction to microeconomics. I would characterize it as an introduction, despite others' comments that it is "Intermediate Level". There are plenty of simple examples along with counter-intuitive illustrations of the principles. Those are particularly fun and what you'd expect based on Landsburg's popular economics books.

Everything is presented by showing graphs and diagrams, which helps you to think about the principles graphically. You also can read this book without knowing much mathematics.

Actually, I found it strange that the mathematical part was relegated to an appendix at the end of the book. There are many explanations that could have been clearer if they had been incorporated into the text.

Price Theory 7th ed.
This book was used for a graduate level Microeconomics class.Pretty easy to follow since I had never taken econ. before.I ordered my book as the international version because I was able to get it for 1/2 the price of the US version.There was no difference except in the cover design.Several other students in my class had done the same thing.$156.00 is just too much for any book.I was able to get mine new for $80.00! The ISBN # of the international version is ISBN: 978-0-324-64517-0 (Also sold on AMAZON).The workbook that goes with it is US version only so no price break. It is a handy workbook though.I found the INFO-trac site to be a waste and most of my classmates didn't even open their code card.

excellent book!
I got this book for my online microeconomics class, and was very impressed by it, so much that it made me leave a review here which I've never done before. I don't particularly enjoy reading much, let alone reading a textbook, but this book was a page turner! I really like the way the author writes. There are so many interesting stories that are relative to the topics the author's discussing in each chapter that not only help you get through the book without your mind wandering off every 5 second, but they help you understand the difficult concepts with ease. I had no prior knowledge at all in economics but it didn't matter. My class doesn't have any lectures, so it is basically like study on my own, but I feel like this book alone has taught me so much. Now I'm going to go and search for whatever Landsburg has written. He's really good!

CONSERVATIVE BIAS, otherwise great
When you write a textbook in economics you have the opportunity, the responsibility even, to apply the theory to public policy and everyday life.Landsburg does this in an informative and entertaining way but overall he treats liberals more roughly than conservatives.There have been times when liberals seemed more ignorant of economics than conservatives but that does not explain why conservatives get off so easily in this book.Landsburg simply prefers examples that fit his political agenda.Sadly, readers will have no idea that the examples were choosen based on their political value as well as their pedagogic value.

Still, this book is entertaining, clearly written and teaches important material.If not for the political bias I would give it five stars. ... Read more

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Chapters: Mel Scale, Psychoacoustics, Stroop Effect, Detection Theory, Stevens' Power Law, Weber-fechner Law, Absolute Threshold, Just-Noticeable Difference, Pitch, Haas Effect, Contrast Effect, Sensory Analysis, Kruithof Curve, Odor Detection Threshold, Sensory Threshold, Sensitivity, Roughness, Two Alternative Forced Choice, Interstimulus Interval, Swept-Plane Display. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. Alternatively it can be described as the study of the psychological correlates of the physical parameters of acoustics. Hearing is not a purely mechanical phenomenon of wave propagation, but is also a sensory and perceptual event. When a person hears something, that something arrives at the ear as a mechanical sound wave traveling through the air, but within the ear it is transformed into neural action potentials. These nerve pulses then travel to the brain where they are perceived. Hence, in many problems in acoustics, such as for audio processing, it is advantageous to take into account not just the mechanics of the environment, but also the fact that both the ear and the brain are involved in a persons listening experience. The inner ear, for example, does significant signal processing in converting sound waveforms into neural stimulus, so certain differences between waveforms may be imperceptible. Audio compression techniques, such as MP3, make use of this fact. In addition, the ear has a nonlinear response to sounds of different loudness levels. Telephone networks and audio noise reduction systems make use of this fact by nonlinearly compressing data samples before transmission, and then expanding them for playback. Another effect of the ear's nonlinear response is that...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25663206 ... Read more

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This essential guide offers the general surgeon expert contributions on each area of operative pediatric management, including diagnosis and rationales for each procedure. ... Read more

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ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN-THE SERIES THE DOGGONE TRUTH When Charlie finds himself in the doghouse with Arabelle, his heavenly boss, he must perform an upstanding act in order to get back inot her good graces. ... Read more