In the previous chapters, we introduced and discussed various Axis2 concepts and highlighted the importance of them. Starting from this chapter, we are going to discuss how to use those concepts in the real world. Each chapter provides you with a comprehensive set of examples, which help you to understand the concepts clearly. Repeating the example in your own environment would help you to gain the most out of each chapter. Axis2 introduces several new features to its web services. For example, annotation support, session support, and ways to store session-aware data in the information hierarchy, POJO, and Spring-based web services.
As we have already discussed in the previous chapters, there are two main aspects to any given web service framework; firstly, to provide a hosting environment for web services, and secondly, to provide an invocation framework to access a remote service. Hosting a service includes implementing a service, deployment of the service...