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Professional Java Web Services

Chapter 3: Apache SOAP 2.2^*

[The series of excerpts below are from Chapter 3 of the Wrox Press Ltd. title Professional Java Web Services.]

Introduction and What We Will Learn

In the previous chapter we discussed the internals of the SOAP 1.1 specification. In this chapter we will discuss Apache SOAP 2.2, an open source Java implementation of the SOAP 1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications. We will cover in this chapter:

The history of the Apache SOAP project

The future of Apache SOAP

Installing Apache SOAP

Developing a SOAP service using the facilities provided by Apache SOAP

Deploying a SOAP service onto the Apache SOAP run-time environment

Developing a SOAP client using the Apache SOAP client-side API

Debugging SOAP clients and services

In order to illustrate the concepts discussed in this chapter we will use an example application called the "Job Resumé Repository System", which allows users to submit and retrieve their resumé.

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* Copyright and Authorship Notice

This chapter extract is taken from "Professional Java Web Services" by Alex Toussaint, Ben Galbraith, Andre Tost, Romin Irani, S. Jeelani Basha, Mack Hendricks, Tarak Modi, James Milbery, and Scott Cable published by Wrox Press Limited in January 2002; ISBN 1861003757; copyright © Wrox Press Limited 2002; all rights reserved.

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