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JBoss AS 7 Development - Second Edition

By : Francesco Marchioni
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JBoss AS 7 Development - Second Edition

By: Francesco Marchioni

Overview of this book

JBoss Application Server meets high standards of reliability, efficiency, and robustness, and is used to build powerful and secure Java EE applications. It supports the most important areas of Java Enterprise programming including EJB 3.1, Contexts and Dependency Injection, JAX-WS and JAX-RS web services, the security framework, and more. Getting started with JBoss application server development can be challenging; however, with the right approach and guidance, you can easily master it and this book promises that.Written in an easy-to-read style, this book will take you from the basics of JBoss AS—such as installing core components and plugins—to the skills that will make you a JBoss developer to be reckoned with, covering advanced topics such as developing applications with the JBoss messaging service, JBoss web services, clustered applications, and more.You will learn the necessary steps to install a suitable environment for developing enterprise applications on JBoss AS. You will also learn how to design Enterprise applications using Eclipse, JBoss plugins, and Maven to build and deploy your applications. Readers will learn how to enable distributed communication using JMS. Storing and retrieving objects will be made easier using the Java Persistence API. The core section of the book will take you into the programming arena with tested, real-world examples. The example programs have been carefully crafted to be easy to understand and useful as starting points for your applications. This practical guide will show you how to gain hands-on experience rapidly on Java EE development using JBoss AS with easy-to-understand and practical programming examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JBoss AS 7 Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Adding Web Services to Your Applications

In the earlier chapter, we discussed the Java Messaging Service API that is commonly used to develop loosely coupled applications and also to develop a common integration pattern for Java-to-Java systems. In this chapter, we will learn about web services that are defined by W3C as software systems, and are designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

What makes web services different from other forms of distributed computing is that information is exchanged using only simple and nonproprietary protocols. This means the services can communicate with each other regardless of location, platform, or programming language. Essentially, web services protocols provide a platform-independent way to perform Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs).

The focus of this chapter will be on the two chief web services standards, JAX-WS (JSR 224) and JAX-RS (JSR 311), and how they are implemented into JBoss AS 7. As you can imagine...