Groovy Web Services, Part II: SOAP and JAX-WS
Although RESTful web services have gotten better press, SOAP-based web services are often the backbone of many large enterprises. The user-friendly advances in JAX-WS 2.* make developing such services much easier. As with most Java topics, Groovy simplifies the development of web services as well. Since it is particularly well-suited to XML processing, Groovy is quite helpful in the web services and SOA worlds.
In this presentation, we'll look at how Groovy interacts with JAX-WS web services. We'll build both clients and services and discuss both the benefits and drawbacks of using Groovy in your web service development.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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