Quickstart Apache Axis2 -- Table of Contents -- Quickstart Apache Axis2 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- What You Need for This Book -- Who This Book is For -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Introduction -- Web Service History -- Web Services Overview -- How Do Organizations Move into Web Services? -- Web Services Model -- Web Services Standards -- XML-RPC -- SOAP -- Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) -- Service Description -- Web Services Description Language (WSDL) -- Web Services Life Cycle -- Apache Web Service Stack -- Why Axis2? -- Download and Install Axis2 -- Binary Distribution -- WAR Distribution -- Source Distribution -- JAR Distribution -- Summary -- 2. Looking into Axis2 -- Axis2 Architecture -- Core Modules -- XML Processing Model -- SOAP Processing Model -- Information Model -- Deployment Model -- Client API -- Transports -- Other Modules -- Code Generation -- Data Binding -- Extensible Nature of Axis2 -- Service Extension of the Module -- Custom Deployers -- Message Receivers -- Summary -- 3. AXIOM -- Overview and Features -- What is Pull Parsing? -- AXIOM-Architecture -- Working with AXIOM -- Creating an AXIOM -- Creating an AXIOM from an Input Stream -- Creating an AXIOM Using a String -- Creating an AXIOM Programmatically -- Adding a Child Node and Attributes -- Working with OM Namespaces -- Working with Attributes -- Traversing the AXIOM Tree -- Serialization -- Advanced Operations with AXIOM -- Using OMNavigator for Traversing -- Xpath Navigation -- Accessing the Pull-Parser -- AXIOM and SOAP -- Summary -- 4. Execution Chain -- Handler -- Writing a Simple Handler -- Phase -- Types of Phases -- Global Phase -- Operation Phase -- Phase Rules -- Phase Name -- phaseFirst.

phaseLast -- before -- after -- after and before -- Invalid Phase Rules -- Flow -- Module Engagement and Dynamic Execution Chain -- Special Handlers in the Chain -- TransportReceiver -- Dispatchers -- MessageReceiver -- TransportSender -- Summary -- 5. Hacking Deployment -- What's New in Axis2 Deployment? -- J2EE-like Deployment Mechanism -- Hot Deployment and Hot Update -- Repository -- Change in the Way of Deploying Handlers (Modules) -- New Deployment Descriptors -- Global Descriptor (axis2.xml) -- Service Descriptor (services.xml) -- Module Descriptor (module.xml) -- Available Deployment Options -- Archive-Based Deployment -- Directory-Based Deployment -- Deploying a Service Programmatically -- POJO Deployment -- Deploying and Running a Service in One Line -- Summary -- 6. Information Model -- Introduction -- Axis2 Static Data -- AxisConfiguration -- Parameters -- MessageFormatters and MessageBuilders -- TransportReceiver and TransportSender -- Flows and PhaseOrder -- AxisModule -- Service Description Hierarchy -- AxisServiceGroup -- AxisService -- AxisOperation -- AxisMessage -- Axis2 Contexts -- ConfigurationContext -- ServiceGroupContext -- ServiceContext -- OperationContext -- MessageContext -- Summary -- 7. Writing an Axis2 Service -- Introduction -- Code-First Approach -- Single-Class POJO Approach -- POJO with Class Having Package Name -- Deploying a Service Using a Service Archive File -- Writing the services.xml File -- Service Implementation Class -- Specifying the Message Receiver -- Creating a Service Archive File -- Different Ways of Specifying Message Receivers -- Specify Message Receivers at the Operation Level -- Specify Message Receivers at the Service Level for the Whole Service -- Specify Service-Level Message Receivers and Override Them with Operations -- Service Group and Single Service -- Adding Third-Party Resources.

Service WSDL and Schemas -- Contract-First Approach-Starting from WSDL -- Generating Code -- Filling the Service Skeleton -- Running the Ant Build File -- Deploying the Ant-Created Service Archive File -- Summary -- 8. Writing an Axis2 Module -- Introduction -- Module Concept -- Module Structure -- Module Configuration File (module.xml) -- Handlers and Phase Rules -- Parameters -- Module Implementation Class -- WS-Policy -- Endpoints -- Writing the module.xml File -- Deploying and Engaging the Module -- Advanced module.xml -- Summary -- 9. Client API -- Introduction -- Blocking and Non-Blocking Invocation -- Inside Axis2 Client API -- ServiceClient API -- Available Ways of Creating a ServiceClient -- Type 1: Creating a ServiceClient using Its Default Constructor -- Type 2: Creating a ServiceClient with Your Own ConfigurationContext -- Type 3: Creating a Dynamic Client (Client on the Fly) -- ServiceClient with a Working Sample -- Scenario 1: Invoking a service in Blocking Manner (sendReceive()) -- Scenario 2: Utilizing a Service in a Non-Blocking Manner (sendReceiveNonBlocking()) -- Scenario 3: Utilizing a Service using Two Transports -- Scenario 4: Utilizing an In-Only MEP (FireAndForget()) -- Scenario 5: Utilizing an In-Only MEP (sendRobust()) -- Working with OperationClient -- Summary -- 10. Session Management -- Introduction -- Stateless Nature of Axis2 -- Types of Sessions in Axis2 -- Session Creation and Session Destruction -- Java Reflection -- Using the Optional Interface -- Accessing MessageContext -- Request Session Scope -- SOAP Session Scope -- Transport Session Scope -- Application Scope -- Managing Session Using ServiceClient -- Summary -- 11. Contract First or Code First -- Introduction -- Code-First Approach -- Why Not the Code-First Approach? -- Contract-First Approach: Why is it So Special? -- Code-Generation Support in Axis2.

Sample 1: Use Default Code-Generation Options to Generate Server-Side Code -- Sample 2: Use a Different Databinding -- Sample 3: Generate an Interface Instead of a Concrete Class -- Sample 4: Generating Client-Side Code -- Summary -- 12. Advanced Topics -- REST-Representational State Transfer -- Features of REST -- REST Services in Axis2 -- MTOM-Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism -- MTOM on the Client Side -- MTOM on the Service Side -- Axis2 ClassLoader Hierarchy -- Sharing Libraries Using the Class Loader Hierarchy -- Axis2 Configurator -- Deploying Axis2 in Various Application Servers -- Summary -- Index.