Hello all, The book I have been co-authoring for the past year, Java Development with Ant, is nearing publishing (in the shops next month), and up on the web site to go with the book we have some sample chapters. And guess what is the subject of one of the two chapters? Building and testing Axis projects.
http://www.manning.com/antbook We kind of cheated, we only cover jws files(*), but we do demo how to autogenerate client and junit code from a service. We also show how to build and run a C# client against your service from inside ant: this is probably the first ever example of anyone doing this; it is a great way to auto-test interop every single build. I strongly believe that if you use Ant I you should run out and buy this book when it ships (**), but even if you lack the money or the motivation, you should download the chapter on web service dev (and the other one, on how to do junit properly), as it will help your Web Service's build and test process. Enjoy, -Steve (*) two reasons for this 1. it is an ant book, not an axis book and we were fighting book bloat all the time 2. axis was very fluid. We did our best to stay up to date, but I am sure this chapter will need a quarterly update on the web site. (**) or sit in the bookshop cafe reading and deciding whether to buy it or not; that's what I do.
