Articles

Contract-First Web Services with Apache Axis2
It's tempting to throw down your business logic and expose it as a Web service later, but this "code-first" approach is fraught with peril. Ajith Ranabahu argues for a "contract-first" approach in which you use code generation to create server-side code. Aug. 8, 2006

A Dive Into the Generated Client Code in Axis2
Code Generation is an essential technique for developers working with SOAP, as web services' WSDL documents describe the services in machine-processable ways, which enables automated generation of classes to work with the service. In this article, Ajith Ranabahu looks at how Apache Axis2 provides flexibility for different code generation scenarios. Jun. 22, 2006