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This is to inform with great joy that I was able to complete my book on Apache Axis2. The book is now published and available on most of the online book stores . It took more than 18 months to complete the book. I tried my best to cover most of the commonly used features as well as basis of Axis2 . I believe that will help to overcome and clarify most of the unknown areas of Axis2 as well as to improve your knowledge on Axis2 . I have added a number of code samples to make the reader's job easier , I hope that will help you to understand the content very easy manner.

In this very happy moment I should not forgot to mention some of the key forces behind Apache Axis2 project as well as my book . First Dr. Sanjiva who helped me a lot and provides necessary guidelines to be active in Apache Axis2 as well as , giving me a chance to work at WSO2 . Next Hemapani (Srinath) who is one of my very good friend as well as who motivated me, to move into open source field . And all of the members Axis2 team including Dims , Paul , Glen , Chinthka , Ajith , Jaliya , Chathura and rest of the team , without their major contribution we can not make Axis2 a successful project. In addition to Axis2 team Suran , Charitha and Devaka for their major contribution on reviewing the chapters and improving them , finally I would like to thank Packt publishers for giving me this wonderful opportunity to write a book with them.

you can read about this from my blog

http://blogs.deepal.org/2008/05/what-is-soa-registry.html

I wrote an article discussing a way to expose your database as a Web Service.

Link

These days I am doing some experiments on version handling (for WSO2 Registry) .I knew about SVNKit but I have not done enough coding with that , also I knew that has support for local file system and data bases. I really wanted to try the file system one , so I did some coding and got it working (documentations and samples are very good and very useful).

I am(was) involving with architecturing designing , implementing Axis2 a lot , therefore I believe that I have very good experience and understanding about Axis2. However when it come to WS-policy , WS-Reliable Messaging and WS-Security my knowledge on those area is not that rich . Therefore to get those working together and configure them using policy is a bit of challenge. That does not mean getting RM and security working in Axis2 is a difficult task but when it come to more complex scenarios it is a challenge.
In the meantime Web services are not only for programmers other people also should be able to use them. In that case it should be easy to deploy and invoke service with minimal time and minimal effect.

Oh I forgot to add this to WSO2 blog. This is one of the very cool feature I implement so far.

Isn't that a cool to start an Axis2 server and deploy a service in only two steps , yes it is cool ,

Try this out.

Say you have a service class called , MyService as follows,

public class MyService {

public String helloWord(){
return "HelloWord!!";
}

}

Next

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

new AxisServer().deployService(MyService.class.getName());

}

Next go and browse “http://localhost:6060/axis2/services/MyService/helloWord” and see what you are getting.

Indiana University and WSO2 are going to host an Axis2 hackathon at
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana from June 11th to June 16th
(inclusive). The main goal of the F2F is to use some co-located hacking time to help stabilize and create a better Axis2 1.3 release at the earliest time. The plan is to discuss issues (and bring them to the list too of course) but also get most of the fixing / mods done then and there.

All Axis2 contributors are welcome to join. This is not an educational session however- so you must be able to help with some aspects of development if you are coming ove

My first article about Axis2 client side is now on line in java.net that will solve most of your client side issues.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/12/13/invoking-web-services-using-apache-axis2.html