Quickstart Apache Axis2

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 9: Client API
  • Introduction
  • Blocking and Non-Blocking Invocation
  • Inside Axis2 Client API
    • ServiceClient API
      • Available Ways of Creating a ServiceClient
      • ServiceClient with a Working Sample
    • Working with OperationClient
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

Deepal Jayasinghe

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