Web services

Developing Web Services with Apache CXF and Axis2 (3red Edition)

If you'd like to learn how to create web services (in particular, using Apache CXF or Axis2) and make some sense of various standards like JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAXB, SOAP, WSDL, REST, MTOM, WS-Security, WS-Policy, XML Encryption and XML Signature, then this book is for you. Why?

It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what's happening.
It contains working code.
The first two chapters are freely available here on http://www.ttdev.com. You can judge it yourself.

What the experts say (1st edition)

'Very nice, very readable, very detailed, very useful to newbie Axis developers', said Anne Thomas Manes.

Chapter 1 Designing the interface for a simple web service

Chapter 2 Implementing a web service

Chapter 3 Viewing the SOAP messages

Chapter 4 Accepting multiple parameters

Chapter 5 Sending and receiving complex data structures

Chapter 6 Sending binary files

Chapter 7 Invoking lengthy operations

Chapter 8 Signing and encrypting SOAP messages

Chapter 9 Creating scalable web services with REST

Chapter 10 Deploying your services and integrating them with Spring

Chapter 11 Unit testing your web services

A more detailed TOC is here. Content highlights:

How to work with both Apache CXF 2.2.x and Axis2 1.5.x using standard API (JAX-WS, JAX-RS) as much as possible.
How to use caching to create scalable RESTful web services.
How to encrypt and sign SOAP messages using Rampart.
How to send user authentication information using Rampart.
How to send and receive binary files using MTOM.
How to unit test web services.

Target audience and prerequisites

This book is suitable for those who would like to learn how to develop web services in Java. In order to understand what's in the book, you need to know Java and to have edited XML files. However, you do NOT need to know more advanced XML concepts (e.g., XML schema, XML namespace), servlet, Tomcat or PKI.

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