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Beginning Spring Framework 2
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Beginning Spring Framework 2

by Bruce Snyder, Sing Li, Anne Horton, Thomas Van de Velde, Naveen Balani, Christian Dupuis
December 2007
Beginner
499 pages
13h 6m
English
Wrox
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Chapter 9. Spring Web Services and Remoting

A web service is software that is identified by a URI and whose interfaces and bindings are specified through XML. The web service can then be discovered by other distributed software systems and communicated with via XML-based messages. In its simplest form, a web service can be viewed as a client/server architecture that allows varying systems to interact with one another through the use of industry standards protocols. Web services is an interface or wrapper around disparate system implementations.

Because web services can operate over the Internet, they are accessible from anywhere Internet service is available. This enables applications as well as people to consume these web services in order to achieve business goals. Because web services can run over existing transport infrastructures and web standards, you don't need to install any new infrastructure to use them.

This chapter will cover the server aspect of web services. The next chapter will cover the client aspect. Specifically, this chapter covers the following:

  • The concepts behind web services

  • Why you want to use web services

  • An analysis of the PIX services that need to be exposed

  • XFire, an open-source web service container

  • Integrating Spring with XFire

  • Exposing POJOs as web services

  • Intercepting web service messages

  • Creating web service clients and invoking web services

In this chapter, you add new Spring configurations and code to the PIX application to expose PIX functionality as web ...

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