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About This Tutorial
This tutorial is a beginner's guide to developing enterprise applications using the Java
Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The Java WSDP is an all-in-one download containing key technologies to simplify building of Web services using the Java 2 Platform. This tutorial requires a full installation (Typical, not Custom) of the Java WSDP. Here we cover all the things you need to know to make the best use of this tutorial.
Who Should Use This Tutorial
This tutorial is intended for programmers interested in developing and deploying Web services and Web applications on the Java WSDP.
How to Read This Tutorial
This tutorial is organized into six parts:
- Introduction
The first five chapters introduce basic concepts and technologies and we suggest that you read these first in their entirety. In particular, many of the Java WSDP examples run on the Tomcat Java servlet and JSP container and the Getting Started with Tomcat chapter tells you how to start, stop, and manage Tomcat.
- Java XML technology
These chapters cover the technologies for developing applications that process XML documents and provide Web services:
- Web technology
These chapters cover the component technologies used in developing the presentation layer of aWeb application.
- Case Study
The Coffee Break Application chapter in this part describes an application that ties together most of the APIs discussed in this tutorial.
- Appendixes
About the Examples
Prerequisites for the Examples
To understand the examples you will need a good knowledge of the Java programming language, SQL, and relational database concepts. The topics listed in Table P-1 The Java
Tutorial are particularly relevant:
Building and Running the Examples
This section tells you everything you need to know to obtain, build, and run the examples.
Required Software
If you are viewing this online, you need to download The Java Web Services Tutorial from:
Once you have installed the tutorial bundle, the example source code is in the
<
INSTALL
>/jwstutorial12/examples/
directory, with subdirectories for each of the technologies included in the pack except for the JavaServer Faces and JAXB technologies. The examples for these technologies are included in the Java WSDP in the<
JWSDP_HOME
>/jsf/samples
and<
JWSDP_HOME
>/jaxb/samples
directories.This tutorial documents the Java WSDP 1.2. To build, deploy, and run the examples you need a copy of the Java WSDP and the Java 2 Software Development Kit, Standard Edition (J2SE
SDK) 1.4.1 or higher. You download the Java WSDP from:
and the J2SE 1.4 SDK from
Building the Examples
Most of the examples are distributed with a build file for
Ant
1.5.1, a portable build tool contained in the Java WSDP. Directions for building the examples are provided in each chapter.In order to run the
Ant
scripts, you must configure your environment and properties files as follows:
- Add
<
JAVA_HOME
>/bin
to the front of your path.- Add
<
JWSDP_HOME
>/bin
to the front of your path so that JWSDP 1.2 scripts override other installations.- Add
<
JWSDP_HOME
>/apache-ant/bin
to the front of your path so that JWSDP 1.2Ant
script overrides other installations. The version of Ant shipped with the Java WSDP sets thejwsdp.home
environment variable, which is required by the example build files. If you do not use this version of Ant, you will need to set thejwsdp.home
property in thebuild.properties
file described in the next bullet.- Set the following properties in the file
<
INSTALL
>/jwstutorial12/examples/common/build.properties:
Tutorial Example Directory Structure
To facilitate iterative development and keep application source separate from compiled files, the source code for the tutorial examples is stored in the following structure under each application directory:
The
Ant
build files (build.xml
) distributed with the examples contain targets to create abuild
subdirectory and copy and compile files into that directory and perform administrative functions on the application server. Build properties and targets common to a particular technology are specified in the files
<
INSTALL
>/jwstutorial12/examples/technology/common/build.properties
and<
INSTALL
>/jwstutorial12/examples/technology/common/targets.xml
.Managing the Examples
Many of the Java WSDP examples run on the Tomcat Java servlet and JSP container. You use the
manager
tool to list, install, list, reload, remove, deploy, and undeploy Web applications. See Appendix B for information on this tool.How to Print This Tutorial
To print this tutorial, follow these steps:
- Ensure that Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed on your system.
- Open the PDF version of this book.
- Click the printer icon in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Typographical Conventions
Table P-2 lists the typographical conventions used in this tutorial.
Menu selections indicated with the right-arrow character
, for example, First
Second, should be interpreted as: select the First menu, then choose Second from the First submenu.
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