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Jane Wilkie
Jane Wilkie

Reputation: 1743

Beginning Java Web services. Where to start

my company runs a site that primarily has its backend logic coded in Perl. It works fine but ultimately we are headed to something Java driven. I do plan on studying this and would like to start setting up a Java environment on another server in our company so when the time comes I at least have a headstart. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to begin? Just interested in generalities now. JW

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1148

Answers (2)

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 9582

You need J2EE
http://download.oracle.com/javaee/1.4/tutorial/doc/

Java Tutorial
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

General Java Stuff
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/newtojava/overview/gettingstarted-jsp-138588.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/webapps-1-138794.html

About the Class Path
http://kevinboone.net/classpath.html

Upvotes: 0

usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ
usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ

Reputation: 26874

What are you planning to study? All Java or just the web service extensions?

If you come from Perl, I must suggest you starting from "hello world" with a Java cookbook, then you can start moving towards web services after a while. Another good book about web service is what you might need.

Finally, when beginning to build the web service, I suggest you two things:

  1. Design the WSDL independently from Java code that will implement it. It's very important for cross-platform interoperability. Try to use Altova XMLSpy or a similar tool to define the pure WSDL as a design contract
  2. Deploy with Axis

I don't know how to propose to move this question to Stackoverflow, because you can find LOTS of answers there

Upvotes: 1

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