If you’d like to learn how to create web services (in particular, using Apache CXF or Axis2) and make some sense of various standards like JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAXB, SOAP, WSDL, REST, MTOM, WS-Security, WS-Policy, XML Encryption and XML Signature, then this book is for you. Why?
* It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
* It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
* Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what’s happening.
* It contains working code.