stevel 2002/11/08 21:34:30 Modified: java/docs reading.html Log: Sort the books by pub date, list axis version used. harsh but fair. Revision Changes Path 1.11 +51 -15 xml-axis/java/docs/reading.html Index: reading.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-axis/java/docs/reading.html,v retrieving revision 1.10 retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 --- reading.html 7 Nov 2002 07:31:05 -0000 1.10 +++ reading.html 9 Nov 2002 05:34:30 -0000 1.11 @@ -38,11 +38,13 @@ </li> -<li><a href="http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/axis/";>Apache Axis SOAP for Java</a> +<li><a href="http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/axis/";>Apache Axis SOAP for Java</a><br> Dennis Sosnoski covers Axis. This is another good introductory guide. <li><a href="http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/axis/axis-monitor.html";> - Enabling SOAPMonitor in Axis 1.0</a>. How to turn the SOAP monitor on and off, and use it. + Enabling SOAPMonitor in Axis 1.0</a>.<br> + How to turn the SOAP monitor on and off, and use it to log your + Soap application. </ol> <a name="specifications"> @@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ <li> <a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt";> RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 - </a> + </a>< </li> <li> <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/downloads/jaxrpc.html";> @@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ <li> <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/stories/2002/03/16/aGentleIntroductionToSoap.html";> A Gentle Introduction to SOAP - </a> + </a><br> Sam Ruby tries not to scare people. </li> <li> @@ -122,12 +124,13 @@ Steve Loughran tries to scare people. A painful demonstration how deployment and system management are trouble spots in a production service, followed by an espousal of a - deployment-centric development process. + deployment-centric development process. Remember, it doesn't have to + be that bad. </li> <li> <a href="http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/index.en.jsp";> - JavaOne 2002,Web Services Today and Tomorrow </a><br> + JavaOne 2002, Web Services Today and Tomorrow </a><br> (Java Developer connection login required) </li> @@ -188,7 +191,8 @@ <li> <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm";> Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures - </a> + </a><br> + The theoretical basis of the REST architecture </li> <li> <a href="http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/papers/soap-hpdc2002/soap-hpdc2002.pdf";> @@ -198,7 +202,8 @@ <li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/";> Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web - </a> + </a><br> + The W3C architects say how things should be done. </li> </ol> <a name="books"> @@ -206,22 +211,53 @@ </a> <ol> -<li><i>AXIS: Next Generation Java SOAP</i> -by Romin Irani, May 2002. -<li><i>Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI</i> -Steve Graham et al, December 2001. +<li><i><a href="http://www.wrox.com/books/1861007531.htm";> +Beginning Java Web Services</a></i> +Meeraj Kunnumpurath et al, Wrox Press, September 2002.<br> + An introductory book, with the early chapters focusing on Axis. The + <a href="http://www.wrox.com/books/sample-chapters/SampleChapter_1861007531.pdf";> + sample chapter</a> shows how to install Axis with Tomcat 4.0: we do not believe + that their approach is the best. It is easier to drop jaxrpc.jar and + saaj.jar into the CATALINA_HOME/common/lib dir than it is to add all + axis jars to the classpath by hand. The book is based on Axis Beta-3. <li> <a href="http://manning.com/antbook";> - Java development with Ant + <i>Java development with Ant</i>i> </a><br> - by Hatcher and Loughran. + by Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran, Manning Press, July 2002. <br> A book on Ant development which covers Web Service development with Axis, along with other topics relevant to Java developers using Ant. The Web Service - chapter, chapter 15, is free to download. + chapter, <A href="http://www.manning.com/hatcher/chap15.pdf";> + chapter 15</A>, is free to download, and was the birthplace of + happyaxis.jar. + The book is based on Axis Beta-2; the web site contains updated + documentation where appropriate. </li> + +<li> +<A href="http://www.wrox.com/books/toc/1861007159_toc.htm";> +<i>AXIS: Next Generation Java SOAP</i> +</A> + by Romin Irani and S Jeelani Bashna, Wrox Press, May 2002.<br> + The first nothing but Axis book. + It is based on Beta-1. +<li> +<A +href="http://sams.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id={ABC81EE6-0D9F-4BD7-99DB-84F9C983ACF7}";> +<i> +Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI</i> +</A> + Steve Graham et al, December 2001. <br> + Covering very early versions of Axis + along with other aspects of Web Service technologies. One of the + authors, Glen Daniels, is an Axis committer and active contributor, so + the quality of the Axis is high. </ol> + +Authors, publishers: we welcome additions to this section of any books which +have some explicit coverage of Axis.
