Contract-First Web Services with Apache Axis2
by Ajith Ranabahu
Jan 27, 2007
It's tempting to throw down your business logic and expose it as a Web service later, but this "code-first" approach is fraught with peril. Ajith Ranabahu argues for a "contract-first" approach in which you use code generation to create server-side code. More...Axis2: The Next Generation of Apache Web Services
by S. W. Eran Chinthaka
Jan 27, 2007
Apache's Axis2 employs profound lessons learned from its popular predecessor, offering the developer vastly improved XML parsing along with an extensible core, pluggable data binding, and more. In this article, S. W. Eran Chinthaka offers an overview of what's new in Axis2, the "next generation" of this popular Web services SOAP stack. More...Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations
by Tieu Luu
Jan 25, 2007
The principle of "separation of concerns" is much repeated in SOA circles... so why are transactional integrity, security, and business logic so often intermingled in SOA implementations? In this article, Tieu Luu shows how to use Spring to separate out security concerns in an Axis-based web service. More...
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