Foreword by Aaron Skonnard

There definitely isn't a shortage of XML or Web services-related titles today. What's missing from most of these books, however, is a focus on the true "Web services platform," which consists of the core XML technologies most authors prefer to brush over or avoid altogether.

You can't blame authors alone for this dilemma since most developers who purchase their books want to avoid XML technologies at all costs and they demand the same focus from publishers. Developers who feel this way about Web services typically want tool vendors to hide the XML details and make every Web service look like a method on an object. These developers are missing the point.

Yasser has written the first Web services book to break this trend. ...

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