JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Building the Web Service

Much of the code in this example will be familiar, as it will reuse and expand much of what has already been shown in previous chapters. A new change is the directory. Because this code will be used at the JSP Insider site, the code has been placed within the com.jspinsider.jspbuzz package. For this example, the code will be installed on the local Apache SOAP server. This will make it possible to run and test the Web service locally. The example will use dom4j as the API to handle the XML documents.

Building a File Handler

The first class we'll build is a simple file handler. This class will determine where all the various files are located within the system. Because the files will be spread around, it makes sense to ...