Java and Soap: Building Web Services in Java (Paperback)

1. Introduction
RPC and Message-Oriented Distributed Systems
Self-Describing Data
XML
API Specs Versus Wire-Level Specs
Overview of SOAP
SOAP Implementations
The Approach
Getting Started

2. The SOAP Message
The HTTP Binding
HTTP Request
HTTP Response
The SOAP Envelope
The Envelope Element
The Header Element
The actor Attribute
The mustUnderstand Attribute
The encodingStyle Attribute
Envelope Versioning
The Body Element
SOAP Faults

3. SOAP Data Encoding
Schemas and Namespaces
Serialization Rules
Indicating Type
Default Values
The SOAP Root Attribute

4. RPC-Style Services
SOAP RPC Elements
A Simple Service
Deploying the Service
Writing Service Clients
Deploying with Request-Level Scope
Deploying with Session-Level Scope
Passing Parameters

5. Working with Complex Data Types
Passing Arrays as Parameters
Returning Arrays
Passing Custom Types as Parameters
Returning Custom Types

6. Custom Serialization
Custom Type Encoding

7. Faults and Exceptions
Throwing Server-Side Exceptions in Apache SOAP
Creating a Fault Listener in Apache SOAP
Throwing and Catching Exceptions in GLUE

8. Alternative Techniques
SOAP Messaging
Literal Encoding

9. SOAP Interoperability and WSDL
Web Services Definition Language
Calling a GLUE Service from an Apache SOAP Client
A Proxy Service Using Apache SOAP
Calling an Apache SOAP Service from a GLUE Client
Accessing .NET Services
Writing an Apache Axis Client

10. SOAP Headers
Apache SOAP Providers and Routers
Replacing the Provider and Router Classes
An Apache SOAP Service That Handles SOAP Headers

11. JAX-RPC and JAXM
JAX-RPC
Working Without Ant
Creating a JAX-RPC Service
Creating a JAX-RPC Client
Generating Stubs from WSDL
Dynamic Invocation Interface
JAXM, in Less Than a Nutshell
What Next?