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Apache Axis2 Web Services, 2nd Edition

By : Deepal Jayasinghe, Afkham Azeez
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Apache Axis2 Web Services, 2nd Edition

By: Deepal Jayasinghe, Afkham Azeez

Overview of this book

<p>Web services are gaining popularity and have become one of the major techniques for application integration. Due to the flexibility and advantages of using web services, you want to enable Web service support to your applications. This book is your gateway to learning all you need to know about the Apache Axis2 web service framework and its hands on implementation. <br /><br />Apache Axis2 Web Services, 2nd Edition is your comprehensive guide to implementing this incredibly powerful framework in practice. It gives you precisely what you need to know to develop a detailed practical understanding of this popular, modular and reliable web service framework.<br /><br />This book starts with a short and relevant introduction about the Axis2 1.5 framework and then plunges you straight into its architectural model.</p> <p>Learn to use and develop your own modules. Write a services.xml file so efficiently that you'll be creating more complex applications (rather than just POJOs) in no time.</p> <p>Learn how straightforward it really is to turn a Java class into a web service in Axis2. Experiment with different types of sessions in Axis2. Learn different patterns of Enterprise deployment. Ensure reliability in your web service - a major concern in most enterprise applications - with minimum impact on performance.<br /><br />This book will journey you through all this and more, giving you exactly what you need to learn Axis2 1.5 in the easiest way possible and create secure, reliable, and easy-to-use web services efficiently and systematically.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Apache Axis2 Web Services
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
15
Building a Secure Reliable Web Service
Index

Chapter 14. Axis2 Advanced Features and Usage

In the preceding chapters, we discussed how to install Axis2, write a simple web service, write a simple module, invoke a web service, and many other things. If you followed them thoroughly along with the samples, you should now be in a good position in terms of the Axis2 basics. So, in this chapter, we will be thrown in at the deep end, so to speak, with more advanced features of Axis2. But there's no need to panic! You have being using most of the advanced features of Axis2 already without knowing it in the previous chapters. Now it's time to learn them in a proper manner and use them in your applications. Axis2 offers a number of interesting features that you need to know when you want to develop a complex web service application.

In this chapter, we will discuss several advanced features of Axis2, which you will need when you go beyond the basic web service invocation. Particularly, we will discuss the following:

  • Representational State Transfer...