Apache Axis2 Web Services2nd Edition -- Table of Contents -- Apache Axis2 Web Services -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 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. Apache Web Services and Axis2 -- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Web service 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 lifecycle -- Apache Web Service stack -- Why Axis2? -- Downloading and installing Apache Axis2 -- Binary distribution -- WAR distribution -- Source distribution -- Document distribution -- JAR distribution -- Summary -- 2. Looking inside 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 or the module -- Custom deployers -- Message receivers -- Summary -- 3. Axis 2 XML Model (AXIOM) -- Overview of AXIOM and its features -- What is pull parsing? -- Architecture -- Working with AXIOM -- Creating Axiom -- Creating Axiom from an input stream -- Creating Axiom using a string -- Creating Axiom programmatically -- Adding child nodes and attributes -- Working with OM namespaces -- Working with attribute -- Traversing the Axiom tree -- Serialization -- Advanced operations with Axiom -- Xpath navigation -- Accessing the pull parser -- Axiom and SOAP.

Creating a SOAP 1.1 document -- Creating a SOAP 1.2 document -- Summary -- 4. Execution Chain -- Handler -- Writing a simple handler -- Phase -- Types of phases -- Global phases -- Operation phases -- Phase rules -- Characterizing a phase rule -- Phase name -- phaseFirst -- phaseLast -- before -- after -- after and before -- Invalid phase rules -- Flow -- Module engagement and dynamic execution chain -- Special handlers in the chain -- Transport receiver -- Dispatchers -- Message receiver -- Transport sender -- Summary -- 5. Deployment Model -- What is new in Axis2 deployment? -- Hot deployment and hot update -- Hot deployment -- Hot update -- Repository -- Change in the way of deploying handlers (modules) -- Deployment descriptors -- Global descriptor or axis2.xml -- Service descriptor (services.xml) -- Module descriptor or 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 -- Axis2 static data -- AxisConfiguration -- Parameters -- MessageReceiver -- 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 -- Creating a web service -- The code first approach -- Single class POJO approach -- POJOs with packages -- Deploying services using a service -- Writing the services.xml file -- Service implementation class -- Specifying the message receiver -- Creating a service archive file -- Different ways of specifying message receivers.

Specifying the message receiver at the operation level -- Specifying message receivers at the service level for the whole service -- Specifying the service level message receiver and overriding them through operations -- Service group and single service -- Adding third-party resources -- Service WSDL and schemas -- Contract first approach - starting from the WSDL -- Generating code -- Filling in the service skeleton -- Running the ant build file -- Summary -- 8. Writing an Axis2 Module -- Brief history of the Axis2 module -- Module concept -- Module structure -- Module configuration file (module.xml) -- Handlers and phase rules -- Module implementation class -- Writing the module.xml file -- Deploying and engaging the module -- Advanced module.xml -- Parameters -- WS-Policy -- Endpoints -- Summary -- 9. The Client API -- Web service client -- Blocking and non-blocking invocation -- Looking into Axis2 client API -- ServiceClient API -- Available options to create 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 working samples -- Scenario 1: Invoking a service in a 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 the OperationClient -- Summary -- 10. Session Management -- Stateless nature of Axis2 -- The available type of sessions in Axis2 -- Session initializing and session invalidating -- Java reflection -- Using the optional interface -- Accessing MessageContext -- Request session scope -- SOAP session scope.

Transport session scope -- Option 1: Using the browser -- Option 2: Using the service client -- Application scope -- Managing sessions using ServiceClient -- Summary -- 11. Developing JAX-WS Web Services -- Writing a simple JAX-WS web service -- JAX-WS annotations -- JSR 181 (Web Service Metadata) annotations -- javax.jws.WebService -- name -- targetNamespace -- serviceName -- endpointInterface -- portName -- wsdlLocation -- javax.jws.WebMethod -- operationName -- action -- exclude -- javax.jws.OneWay -- javax.jws.WebParam -- name -- targetNamespace -- mode -- header -- partName -- javax.jws.WebResult -- name -- targetNamespace -- header -- partName -- javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding -- style -- use -- parameterStyle -- JSR 224 (JAX-WS) annotations -- javax.xml.ws.BindingType -- javax.xml.ws.RequestWrapper and javax.xml.ws.ResponseWrapper -- localName -- targetNamespace -- className -- javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode -- javax.xml.ws.WebEndpoint -- javax.xml.ws.WebFault -- name -- targetNamespace -- faultBean -- javax.xml.ws.WebServiceClient -- name -- targetNamespace -- wsdlLocation -- javax.xml.ws.WebServiceProvider -- targetNamespace -- serviceName -- portName -- wsdlLocation -- javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef -- name -- type -- mappedName -- value -- wsdlLocation -- JSR 222 (JAXB) annotations -- javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement -- namespace -- name -- javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType -- javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement -- name -- namespace -- JSR 250 (Common Annotations) -- javax.annotation.Resource -- javax.annotation.PostConstruct -- javax.annotation.PreDestroy -- Code first service development with JAX-WS -- Contract first development with JAX-WS -- Client-side JAX-WS -- The Dispatch client -- The Dynamic Proxy client -- MTOM with JAX-WS Services -- Asynchronous invocation of JAX-WS services -- Polling model -- Callback model -- Summary.

12. Axis2 Clustering -- Setting up a simple Axis2 cluster -- Writing a highly available clusterable web service -- Stateless Axis2 Web Services -- Setting up a failover cluster -- Increasing horizontal scalability -- Setting up and configuring Axis2 clusters in production -- Clustering agent -- Clustering agent parameters -- AvoidInitiation -- membershipScheme -- domain -- synchronizeAll -- maxRetries -- mcastAddress -- mcastPort -- mcastFrequency -- memberDropTime -- mcastBindAddress -- localMemberHost -- localMemberPort -- preserveMessageOrder -- atmostOnceMessageSemantics -- properties -- State management -- Node management -- Group management -- Static members -- Full configuration -- Membership schemes -- Static membership -- Dynamic membership -- Hybrid membership -- Cluster management -- Highly available load balancing -- The Axis2 clustering management API -- org.apache.axis2.clustering.ClusteringAgent -- org.apache.axis2.clustering.state.StateManager -- org.apache.axis2.clustering.management.NodeManager -- org.apache.axis2.clustering.management.GroupManagementAgent -- Summary -- 13. Enterprise Integration Patterns -- Apache Synapse -- WSO2 ESB -- OpenESB -- Protocol bridging -- External authentication and authorization -- Dynamic routing combined with auditing -- Event Driven Architecture (EDA) with Master Data Management (MDM) for Integrating Legacy Systems -- Event Driven Architecture (EDA) -- Master Data Management (MDM) -- Adaptor layer -- Integration server -- Logic server -- Registry -- Push and pull -- Fault tolerant autoscaling with dynamic load balancing -- References -- Summary -- 14. Axis2 Advanced Features and Usage -- Representational State Transfer (REST) -- Features of REST -- REST services in Axis2 -- REST web service with GET and POST -- Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) -- By value -- By reference.

MTOM on the client side.