Java web services programming

* A must have for any serious Java developer, this title enables readers to build web services for next-generation applications with Sun's new Web Services pack for Java 2.
* Web services are the future of web application development
* Web services are a crucial element in emerging platforms from Sun, Microsoft, IBM, HP and others
* Covers building web services with Sun's Web Services pack
* Leading software development tool vendors, including Borland Software Corp., Oracle Corp. and WebGain Inc., as well as Sun's ForteTM tools group, plan to integrate the Web Services Pack into their Java IDEs
* Written by Java developers at leading technology training company NIIT USA.

Author Notes

Rashim Mogha develops courses and works as a trainer, project manager, and instructional and technical reviewer at NIIT
V. V. Preetham is a consultant

Preface	p. ix
Part I Introduction to Web Services
Chapter 1 Web Services Architecture	p. 3
Web Services--An Overview	p. 3
Service-Oriented Architecture	p. 4
Service-abstraction	p. 4
Service-encapsulation	p. 6
Service-modularity	p. 7
Service-polymorphism	p. 7
Service Roles	p. 8
Service provider	p. 9
Service broker	p. 10
Service requestor	p. 11
Technology Stack	p. 12
Architectural Processes	p. 15
Description	p. 17
Discovery	p. 18
Invocation	p. 20
Value Chain	p. 21
Standards body	p. 23
Framework providers	p. 24
Tool and product vendors	p. 24
Web Services Developers (WSD)	p. 24
Web Services Marketers (WSM)	p. 24
Web Services Providers (WSP)	p. 24
Web Services Consumers (WSC)	p. 25
Summary	p. 25
Part II Web Services Technology Stack
Chapter 2 XML	p. 29
An Introduction to XML	p. 29
XML Fundamentals	p. 30
Well-formed XML documents--the rules	p. 33
Components of an XML document	p. 37
XML Namespaces	p. 49
Summary	p. 53
Chapter 3 WSDL	p. 55
WSDL Beginnings	p. 55
Introduction to WSDL	p. 57
WSDL structure	p. 58
WSDL example	p. 59
Definitions of the Service-Abstraction	p. 61
WSDL syntax	p. 61
WSDL elements	p. 63
Binding styles	p. 74
MIME bindings	p. 80
Summary	p. 81
Chapter 4 SOAP	p. 83
Introduction to SOAP	p. 83
The design goals of SOAP	p. 85
Notational conventions	p. 85
SOAP example	p. 86
Message Exchange Model of SOAP	p. 87
SOAP Message	p. 89
SOAP envelope	p. 89
SOAP header	p. 90
SOAP body	p. 92
SOAP fault	p. 93
SOAP Attributes	p. 96
The soapenv:encodingStyle attribute	p. 96
The soapenv:mustUnderstand attribute	p. 97
The soapenv:actor attribute	p. 97
SOAP Encoding	p. 97
Simple types	p. 97
Polymorphic accessor	p. 98
Compound types	p. 99
SOAP Over HTTP	p. 100
HTTP request	p. 100
SOAPAction	p. 101
HTTP response	p. 101
SOAP-RPC	p. 103
SOAP Binding Example	p. 104
Processing of SOAP Message	p. 108
Implementing SOAP By Using the Apache SOAP Toolkit	p. 109
Summary	p. 118
Chapter 5 UDDI	p. 119
What Is UDDI?	p. 120
Why Is UDDI Important?	p. 123
The UDDI Technical Framework	p. 125
UDDI Data Structures	p. 126
Information about business	p. 126
Information about the service	p. 128
Information about the binding	p. 129
Information about the specification for services	p. 130
Publisher assertion	p. 131
UDDI Programmer's API	p. 133
Architecture and design	p. 133
API reference	p. 134
The inquiry API	p. 135
The publishing API	p. 138
UDDI Best Practices	p. 143
UDDI Workarounds	p. 144
Using WSDL with UDDI--An Example	p. 145
Summary	p. 148
Part III The Java Web Services Architecture
Chapter 6 Introduction to JavaServer Pages and Java Servlets	p. 151
An Overview of System Architecture	p. 151
The two-tier model	p. 152
The three-tier model	p. 153
The n-tier model	p. 154
What Are Servlets?	p. 155
Servlets and other alternative technologies	p. 156
Working of a servlet	p. 158
The javax.servlet package	p. 159
Life cycle of a servlet	p. 160
Deploying a servlet	p. 161
Creating, deploying, and testing a servlet	p. 162
Session Tracking	p. 171
Techniques to keep track of sessions in servlets	p. 171
The javax.servlet.http.Cookie class	p. 174
Overview of Java Server Pages	p. 175
JSP components	p. 177
Implementing JSP by using a JavaBean component	p. 180
JSP custom tags	p. 184
Summary	p. 188
Chapter 7 J2EE and Web Services	p. 189
Introduction to J2EE Architecture	p. 189
The J2EE Platform	p. 190
Web Components	p. 193
Servlets	p. 194
Java Server Pages	p. 204
J2EE and Web Services	p. 206
SunONE--an overview	p. 207
DART	p. 208
Summary	p. 208
Chapter 8 JAXP	p. 209
Introduction to JAXP	p. 210
The SAX API	p. 211
Setting up JWSDP	p. 213
The XML document	p. 214
Parse and display	p. 215
Content Handlers	p. 218
The DOM API	p. 223
Summary	p. 238
Chapter 9 JAXB	p. 239
Introduction to JAXB	p. 240
Document Type Definition (DTD)	p. 240
The binding schema	p. 242
Advantages of JAXB	p. 250
Limitations of JAXB	p. 251
Components of JAXB	p. 251
The JAXB Runtime Library	p. 252
Unmarshalling, Validation, and Marshalling	p. 260
Unmarshalling	p. 261
Validation	p. 261
Marshalling	p. 262
Working with JAXB	p. 263
Summary	p. 282
Chapter 10 JAXM	p. 283
Overview of JAXM	p. 283
Types of messaging	p. 286
Interoperability	p. 290
SOAP packaging	p. 290
J2EE Messaging	p. 292
JAXM Architecture	p. 293
JAXM clients	p. 293
JAXM Message Profiles	p. 294
JAXM Programming Model	p. 295
The javax.xml.messaging package	p. 296
The javax.xml.soap package	p. 298
JAXM Examples	p. 300
Summary	p. 313
Chapter 11 JAX-RPC	p. 315
An Overview of JAX-RPC	p. 316
Service endpoint definition	p. 317
Service implementation	p. 318
Service deployment	p. 318
Service invocation	p. 318
Service description	p. 319
JAX-RPC Mappings	p. 320
XML to Java mapping	p. 321
WSDL to Java mapping	p. 323
JAX-RPC Programming Model	p. 325
The client-programming model	p. 326
A simple echo example	p. 327
Summary	p. 342
Chapter 12 JAXR	p. 343
Overview of JAXR	p. 343
XML registries	p. 345
Capability profiles	p. 347
The JAXR Programming Model	p. 348
JAXR API	p. 350
Registry information model	p. 353
The ConnectionFactory and Connection objects	p. 356
The LifeCycleManager and BusinessLifeCycleManager interfaces	p. 358
The BusinessQueryManager and DeclarativeQueryManager interfaces	p. 363
JAXR Examples	p. 366
Summary	p. 373
Chapter 13 JSTL	p. 375
Overview of JSTL	p. 375
JSP custom tags	p. 376
Goals of JSTL	p. 379
Multiple TLDs	p. 380
Expression Language Support	p. 381
EL support tags	p. 383
EL flow control	p. 385
EL URL-related actions	p. 388
i18n Support	p. 391
i18n locale	p. 391
i18n message formatting	p. 391
i18n number and date formatting	p. 394
Database Support	p. 398
The [left angle bracket]sql:query[right angle bracket] tag	p. 399
The [left angle bracket]sql:update[right angle bracket] tag	p. 400
The [left angle bracket]sql:transaction[right angle bracket] tag	p. 400
The [left angle bracket]sql:driver[right angle bracket] tag	p. 402
The [left angle bracket]sql:param[right angle bracket] tag	p. 402
XML Support	p. 403
XML core tags	p. 403
XML flow control	p. 405
XML transformation support	p. 407
Summary	p. 409
Part IV Appendixes
Appendix A WSDL Basics	p. 413
Appendix B SOAP Fundamentals	p. 423
Appendix C Fundamentals of UDDI Version 2.0 Programmer's API	p. 431
Appendix D XML Primer	p. 453
Appendix E Java WSDP	p. 515
Index	p. 537

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