Axis book: Developing Web Services with Apache Axis

Learn web services and Apache Axis easily

If you'd like to learn how to create web services (in particular, using Apache Axis) and make some sense of various standards like SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RPC, SOAP with attachments, WS-Security, XML Encryption and XML Signature, then this book is for you. Why?

It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what's happening.
The first 40 pages freely available here on http://www.agileskills2.org. You can judge it yourself.

What the experts say

'Very nice, very readable, very detailed, very useful to newbie Axis developers', said Anne Thomas Manes.

Chapter 1 Designing the interface for a simple web service

Chapter 2 Implementing a web service

Chapter 3 Optimizing the development environment

Chapter 4 Understanding the calling process

Chapter 5 Accepting multiple parameters

Chapter 6 Sending and receiving complex data structures

Chapter 7 Sending binary files

Chapter 8 Controlling the life cycle of your back end service object

Chapter 9 Signing and encrypting SOAP messages

Chapter 10 Securing an Axis installation

A more detailed TOC is here. The following topics are not found in other books on Axis:

How to work with Axis 1.3.
How to use Eclipse and Tomcat with Axis.
How to encrypt and sign SOAP messages using WSS4J.
How to send and receive SOAP attachments.
How to harden an Axis installation.
How to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP).

Target audience and prerequisites

This book is suitable for those who would like to learn how to develop web services in Java. In order to understand what's in the book, you need to know Java and to have edited XML files. However, you do NOT need to know more advanced XML concepts (e.g., XML schema, XML namespace), servlet, Tomcat or PKI.

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About the author

Ka Iok 'Kent' Tong is the manager of the IT department of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center. He has a Master degree in Computer Science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia. He was the winner of the "Macao Programming Competition (Open Category)" in 1992. He has been involved in professional software development, training and project management since 1993. He is the author of Essential Skills for Agile Development, Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry and Fast Track to Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) 5.0 Upgrade Exam.

Contact the author

If you have any comments, please send to freemant2000 at yahoo dot com.

Errata

Please check the change log. The PDF version and the current print version already include the changes.