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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 6. Information Model

Since the last decade, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been gaining a lot of popularity in the information technology industry. In today's industry, most of the applications try to enable SOA APIs on their applications, for example, Google APIs and Amazon Web Services to name a few. There are a number of reasons behind this trend:

  • SOA is easy to use

  • There are standard bodies that help to improve every type of application to interoperate well

  • Free and open source SOA frameworks

The web service landscape is changing very rapidly, and hence, to support these changes and to facilitate user requirements, a web service framework has to be flexible and extensible enough. Applications, such as Internet commerce (e-commerce), need to manage two types of data:

  • Static data (for example, information, product information)

  • Dynamic data (for example, transaction data, shipping information)

As a result, most applications need to have better support for static and dynamic data...