Resources

Learn

• Check out the Apache Geronimo project, which strives to develop a certified world-class J2EE server.
  
  
• Read Sing Li's articles "Geronimo! Part 1: The J2EE 1.4 engine that could" and "Geronimo! Part 2: Tame this J2EE 1.4 bronco" (developerWorks, May 2005) for a good introduction to the Geronimo J2EE server.
  
  
• Read "Developer's introduction to JAX-RPC, Part 1: Learn the ins and outs of the JAX-RPC type-mapping system" (developerWorks, November 2002) in which Joshy Joseph takes you to the heart of JAX-RPC.
  
  
• Learn how to achieve the next level of Web service interoperability using the JAX-RPC standard's client- and server-side interface definitions and message-processing model by reading "A developer's introduction to JAX-RPC, Part 2: Mine the JAX-RPC specification to improve Web service interoperability" (developerWorks, January 2003).
  
  
• See "Understanding your JAX-RPC SI Environment, Part 1" for a white paper that explains how to unleash the power of the wscompile and wsdeploy tools to develop, deploy, and invoke a Web service using JAX-RPC.
  
  
• Visit the IBM developerWorks SOA and Web services zone for more articles on Web services.
  
  
• See J2EE Web Services by Richard Monson-Haefel for more in-depth information on J2EE Web services.
  
  
• Read Designing Web Services with the J2EE Platform by Inderjeet Singh et al., an excellent introduction to J2EE Web services. The entire book is freely available online in PDF and HTML formats.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks Apache Geronimo project area to access resources for Geronimo developers.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
  
  
• Find a collection of resources you'll need for development using Apache Derby at the developerWorks Apache Derby resource center.
  
  

Get products and technologies

• Check out the Eclipse Platform, an open, extensible IDE. There are heaps of useful plug-ins and extensions available, making this platform extremely versatile.
  
  
• Download the J2SE 1.4.2_08 SDK from Sun.
  
  
• Download Apache Geronimo from the project site.
  
  
• Get the Apache Ant Project, which provides a standard Java-based build tool.
  
  
• Download a Java-based platform for creating and deploying Web services applications from the Apache Axis Project site.
  
  
• Get MySQL, a popular open source relational database, and the MySQL Connector/J driver from the MySQL project site.
  
  
• Download Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP), a free integrated toolkit you can use to build, test, and deploy XML applications, Web services, and Web applications with the latest Web service technologies and standards implementations.
  
  
• Innovate your next open source development project with IBM trial software, available for download or on DVD.
  
  

Discuss

• Participate in the discussion forum.
  
  

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Table of contents

• Before you start
• Extending BookShop with JAX-RPC
• Exposing Web services from BookShop
• Web service clients in BookShop
• Required deployment artifacts
• BookShop in action
• Summary
• Download
• Resources
• About the author

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