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Develop and deploy SOAP and RESTful Web Services Design and develop web services using contract-first and code-first approaches Publish web services using various CXF frontends such as JAX-WS and Simple frontend Invoke services by configuring CXF transports Create custom interceptors by implementing advanced features such as CXF Interceptors, CXF Invokers, and CXF Features The first practical guide on Apache CXF with real-world examples In Detail T… More >>
Apache CXF Web Service Development
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#1 by Sang Minh Lam on May 23, 2010 - 10:10 am
Hi All:
This is the only book I could find on CXF and it is very good. All of the examples I download from the publisher works. Also the author is very supportive. He will answer your questions or problems you have with cxf related to the book.
I especially liked chapter 8 on “wsdl2Java”. This project from chapter 8 allows you to geneate the client proxy code based on an url of a wsdl. In addition, cxf will generate the client with a main. All you have to do is to fill out the values. Therefore, extremely usefully to understand what method is in the wsdl and what is the parameter values. From this tool, you can use tcpmon to generate the xml request. From the xml request you can use SoapUI or JMeter to test your web services.
I wished the author could write more books related to java web services. I believed one can learn alot about web services in general and it doesn’t have to be specify to cxf when reading this book. The reason is because at work you may be using jax-rpc apache axis2 or spring web services but in the end, the final result is a wsdl file. There is a chapter that explains about the wsdl file. I believed understanding what a wsdl file is composed of is very important for one to use web services no matter what the web services framework is.
Yours,
Happy Reader.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Vathsalya Sangam on May 23, 2010 - 12:14 pm
I bought this book recently after long homework, because i wasnt sure, which one to buy. There are lot of other books too in the other martket, but they include all the unnecessary extra details,most of which we may not need.
This books covers the topics poin to point in developing the web services(both SOAP style and REST style) and two chapters are dedicated to REST services alone. I didnt get to that point yet. I am still in my third chapter. So far, i am enjoying reading it.They also have separate forum for the book readers(cxf.soaweb.co.in). You can post your queries and questions there and someone will definitely respond. I like the support i get on this forum. If you are working on spring and never developed web servies, it is good book to get started.
GOOD LUCK and let me know how you liked it after you bought the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by VK on May 23, 2010 - 2:28 pm
I guess this is the first book about CXF as I couldn’t find any book on this subject, so I had limited choice to buy this book. I really liked the style of the book. The book provides step by step details on how to develop web services and use the various features. The book covers lot of examples and authors have done a good job of explaining these concepts. The SOAP style and RESTful styles are covered well. The chapter on REST where the author explains working with raw html formats and CXF was really cool. The chapter on Spring, where authors explained an example on how to use Spring IOC features for CXF was really good and helped non spring users like me to get familiar with Spring. Apart from the typos in the book in the initial chapter, I didn’t find any other flaw with this book. I wish this book would cover advanced topics on WS specifications but nevertheless this book is defiantly a very good guide on CXF web services development.
Rating: 5 / 5