Starting out

[Jason <ja...@opengrc.org>]

Hi
Ok, my experience of 'web-services' currently extends to 4-days of 
confusion trying to assimilate various tutorials, blog entries, webcasts 
etc (although I've also read Eric Newcomer's book).  So, I have a 10,000 
ft kind of understanding ...
My question is simple.  What learning resources should I spend valuable 
time ploughing through to get down to the ground-level with cxf?  I've 
looked at Sun's tutorial on Jax-WS and tutorials at Celtix / Xfire, but 
it's not immediately clear to me how I relate them to cxf.
Essentially I'm looking at Callisto with a large number of new cxf 
projects in the explorer and ... what/where next?
I was working through a FUSE tutorial until a fatal error left me 
stranded and prompted me to look at cxf, although I'm more inclined to 
commit resource to cxf because of its support for REST.  I therefore 
kinda want to build my own cxf tutorial.
Thanks for your help, and perhaps any answers to this mail will be 
helpful to other novices.
Many thanks
Jason

Re: Starting out

[ejf <ej...@bitstream.net>]

Jason,
I know what you mean when it comes to really applying frameworks or, at 
least, ways to handle a real "web service". Half the blogs on web 
services or SOA are marketing and managerial fluff. For good and not so 
good examples of how to create web services, I'd suggest the following:

grab the following:
xfire - http://xfire.codehaus.org <http://xfire.codehaus.org/> - go 
through all the examples that come with it as well as the test cases 
that come with the source files
axis 1.2 - http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/install.html - yup, axis 1.2, 
set it up per tutorial to note the axis-only approach
celtix - to illustrate what an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is

for its great simplicity, I've used xfire for basic web services and 
integration with online applications.
And watch as cxf develops further...
e.j. Fuhr





Jason wrote:

> Hi
> Ok, my experience of 'web-services' currently extends to 4-days of 
> confusion trying to assimilate various tutorials, blog entries, 
> webcasts etc (although I've also read Eric Newcomer's book).  So, I 
> have a 10,000 ft kind of understanding ...
> My question is simple.  What learning resources should I spend 
> valuable time ploughing through to get down to the ground-level with 
> cxf?  I've looked at Sun's tutorial on Jax-WS and tutorials at Celtix 
> / Xfire, but it's not immediately clear to me how I relate them to cxf.
> Essentially I'm looking at Callisto with a large number of new cxf 
> projects in the explorer and ... what/where next?
> I was working through a FUSE tutorial until a fatal error left me 
> stranded and prompted me to look at cxf, although I'm more inclined to 
> commit resource to cxf because of its support for REST.  I therefore 
> kinda want to build my own cxf tutorial.
> Thanks for your help, and perhaps any answers to this mail will be 
> helpful to other novices.
> Many thanks
> Jason
>
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