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JBoss AS 5 Development

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JBoss AS 5 Development

Overview of this book

JBoss AS is the most used Java application server on the market meeting 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 3.0, dependency injection, 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 ASósuch as installing core components and plug-insóto the skills that will make you a JBoss developer to be reckoned with, covering advanced topics such as developing applications with 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. Then, your journey will continue through the heart of the application server, explaining how to customize each service for optimal usage. You will learn how to design Enterprise applications using Eclipse and JBoss plug-ins. You will then learn how to enable distributed communication using JMS. Storing and retrieving objects will be made easier using Hibernate. 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 book will kick-start your productivity and help you to master JBoss AS development. The author's experience with JBoss enables him to share insights on JBoss AS development, in a clear and friendly way. By the end of the book, you will have the confidence to apply all the newest programming techniques to your JBoss applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
JBoss AS 5 Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
8
Developing Applications with JBoss and Hibernate
Index

Coding Web Services with JBossWS


In the first deliverable, we will show how easily you can turn a plain Java class into a Web Service. The newly created service will be then tested using both Java and non-Java clients. The second part of this chapter will draw your attention to how EJB can be exposed as Web Service endpoints.

Developing a POJO Web Service

We will approach Web Services with a simple Java class, which will be used as endpoint for our Web Service. If you browse across the Eclipse menus, you will find that the Enterprise release of this IDE ships with a Wizard for Web Service creation. You can find it the New | Other | Web Services menu.

However, we will not use this wizard for creating our bottom-up Web Services and we encourage you to do the same. As you'll see in a while, all your effort will be adding some annotations to your classes; furthermore, using a Web Service Wizard locks you to a development environment, making it difficult for you to switch to another IDE that hasn...