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?
'Very nice, very readable, very detailed, very useful to newbie Axis developers', said Anne Thomas Manes.
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Chapter 1 Designing the interface for a simple web service |
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Chapter 2 Implementing a web service |
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Chapter 3 Viewing the SOAP messages |
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Chapter 4 Accepting multiple parameters |
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Chapter 5 Sending and receiving complex data structures |
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Chapter 6 Sending binary files |
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Chapter 7 Invoking lengthy operations |
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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 |
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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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The first edition covers Apache Axis. The second edition covers Axis2 1.3.
Kent Ka Iok Tong is the manager of the IT department of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center. With a Master degree in Computer Science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia and having won the "Macao Programming Competition (Open Category)" in 1992, Mr. Tong has been involved in professional software development, training and project management since 1993. He is the author of several popular books on web technologies including Enjoying Web Development with Wicket, Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry and Developing Web Services with Apache CXF and Axis2. He has also created a couple of open source projects: Wicket Page Test and CentralWire.
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