Apache CXF Web Service Development -- Table of Contents -- Apache CXF Web Service Development -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Familiar with CXF -- Web service technology standards -- XML -- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) -- WSDL (Web Services Description language) -- REST (Representational State Transfer) -- Service Registry -- Introducing web services -- Approaches for web service development -- Web service SOAP communication styles -- Apache CXF -- History of CXF -- Why CXF? -- Support for web service standards -- Support for POJO (Plain Old Java Object) -- Frontend programming APIs -- Tools support -- Support for RESTful services -- Support for different transports and bindings -- Support for non-XML binding -- Ease of use -- Flexible deployment -- Setting up the environment -- For ANT users -- For Maven users -- Summary -- 2. Developing a Web Service with CXF -- The Order Processing Application -- Developing a service -- Creating a Service Endpoint Interface (SEI) -- Developing a service implementation class -- Spring-based server bean -- Developing a client -- Developing a Spring-based client bean -- Developing web service client code -- Running the program -- Building the code -- Deploying the code -- Executing the code -- CXF architecture -- Bus -- Frontend -- JAX-WS -- Simple frontend -- Messaging and Interceptors -- Service model -- Data binding -- Protocol binding -- Transports -- Summary -- 3. Working with CXF Frontends -- JAX-WS frontend -- Code-first development -- Creating Service Endpoint Interface (SEI) -- Adding Java annotations -- javax.jws.WebService -- javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding -- RPC versus Document style.

javax.jws.WebMethod -- Publishing the service -- Developing a consumer -- Running the Code-first example -- Contract-first development -- Generating service components -- JAXB input and output message classes -- Service Interface -- Service implementation class -- Standalone server class -- Build file -- Implementing the service method -- Publishing the web service -- Invoking the web service -- Using dynamic client -- Creating a simple dynamic client -- Running the dynamic client -- Using the CXF service model for building dynamic client -- Running the dynamic client which uses Service Model API -- Provider and Dispatch services -- Understanding messaging modes -- Message mode -- Payload mode -- Understanding types of message objects -- javax.xml.transform.Source -- DOMSource -- SAXSource -- StreamSource -- javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage -- javax.activation.DataSource -- Implementing Provider service -- Publishing the Provider service -- Implementing the Dispatch service -- Running the provider dispatch example -- Web service context -- Implementing Context in service -- Running the web service context example -- Simple frontend -- Developing a simple frontend -- Creating service implementation class and interface -- Creating server implementation -- Creating client -- Running the simple frontend example -- Summary -- 4. Learning about Service Transports -- Transport protocols in CXF -- HTTP transport -- SOAP over HTTP -- SOAP 1.1 over HTTP -- SOAP 1.2 over HTTP -- HTTP only -- HTTP conduit -- HTTP destination -- HTTPs transport -- Developing the service and implementation class -- Generating crypto key -- Creating client and server bean configuration -- Configuring the server to support SSL -- Developing the client component -- Building and deploying -- Configuring SSL for Jetty runtime -- JMS transport.

Developing the service and implementation class -- Developing an embedded broker -- Creating a server and client bean configuration -- Developing a client component -- Performing build and deployment -- Local transport -- Developing SEI and an implementation class -- Developing a server -- Creating client bean configuration -- Developing a Client -- Building and executing -- Summary -- 5. Implementing Advanced Features -- Understanding CXF interceptors -- Understanding interceptor phase and chain -- Overview of the interceptor API -- Interceptor interface -- The PhaseInterceptor interface -- The AbstractPhaseInterceptor class -- Developing the custom interceptor -- Developing the server side interceptor -- Adding a server side interceptor to the Order Process service -- Developing the client side interceptor -- Adding a client side interceptor to the client code -- Developing the standalone server for publishing the Order Process web service -- Building and running the Order Process web service and interceptor -- Building the code -- Deploying the code -- Executing the code -- Testing the custom interceptor for negative condition -- Understanding CXF features -- Applying the GZIP feature to the Order Process web service -- Developing service and implementation class -- Developing a server component -- Creating the client bean configuration file -- Creating a client component to consume the service -- Building and executing the code -- Understanding CXF Invoker -- Overview of Invoker API -- The Invoker interface -- The AbstractInvoker class -- Developing custom invoker -- Summary -- 6. Developing RESTful Services with CXF -- Overview of REST and RESTful services -- Java API for RESTful services -- CXF JAX-RS implementation -- Developing end-to-end RESTful services using CXF JAX-RS implementation -- Developing the RESTful service.

Creating Java data objects for Request and Response -- Providing binding for the Request and Response data objects -- Developing the implementation class -- Adding Data Access logic to the implementation class -- Creating the client -- Making RESTful service available over HTTP -- Running the program -- Building the code -- Deploying the code -- Executing the code -- Adding exception handling to RESTful service -- Summary -- 7. Deploying RESTful Services with CXF -- Packaging the Book Shop application -- Configuring CategoryService RESTful bean using Spring -- Integrating Spring using web.xml -- Building and deploying the WAR file -- Building the code -- Deploying the code -- Invoking operations on the Book Shop RESTful application -- Installing POSTER client -- Invoking the Book Shop application using the the POSTER tool -- Invoking the Get Category operation -- Invoking the Add Category operation -- Invoking the Update Category operation -- Invoking the Add Books operation -- Invoking the Get Books operation -- Invoking the Update Category operation with invalid request -- Invoking the Get Category operation with invalid request -- Invoking the Delete Category operation -- Invoking the Book Shop application using CXF APIs -- Configuring JSON support for the Book Shop application -- Incorporating JSON message format for the Book Shop application -- Invoking the Get Category operation with JSON as the message format -- Invoking the Add Category operation with JSON as the message format -- Invoking the Book Shop application with JSON as the message format using CXF APIs -- Intercepting messages for the Book Shop application -- Deploying the Book Shop application in the application servers -- Summary -- 8. Working with CXF Tools -- Invoking a web service using the Java client -- Analyzing the service WSDL definition.

Building and running the Java web service clients -- Generate the web service clients -- Analyzing the JAX-WS and client generated artifacts -- Modifying the generated client -- Building the client -- Running the client -- Invoking the web service using JavaScript -- Building and running the Java web service clients -- Generating the JavaScript client -- Analyzing the generated artifacts -- Creating the client -- Running the client -- Creating Service Implementation from the WSDL file -- Generating and deploying the Service Implementation from the WSDL file -- Generating the web Service Implementation -- Analyzing the Service Implementation generated artifacts -- Modifying the generated Service Implementation -- Building the web service project -- Deploying and publishing the web service -- Invoking the web service -- Validating WSDL files -- Summary -- A. Getting Ready with Code Examples -- Downloading the source code -- Downloading the software required for the book -- Setting up the environment -- Using Maven for Build management -- Building chapter source code using Maven -- B. Getting Started with Spring -- Concept of POJO-based development -- Understanding Inversion of Control -- Overview of aspect-oriented programming -- Introduction to Spring framework -- The Spring IoC container -- Creating a Spring IoC application -- Creating the entity model -- Creating services -- Creating the application and wiring POJO -- Creating the standalone client -- Running the program -- Building the code -- Executing the code -- Summary -- Index.