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Wednesday April 11, 2007

java.sun.com/webservices hub - new avatar

We heard you and changed it for you!

java.sun.com/webservices, the Web services hub for the Java platform, is released today with a completely redesigned website. The content is now much better organized using the tabbed approach and hopefully you'll find it easier to navigate and find your content intuitively. Here are some of the key points I'd like highlight to help you get started:

All the content from previous website is now re-factored into the new website. Please leave a comment on this blog if you see a broken link or missing content.
Added Why for JAX-WS, JAXB, WSIT, JAXP and XWSS. It explains in one line why you should look at any of these technologies. And of course, you can always dig deeper by clicking on the project name.
What's New page does exactly what it says. It highlights new releases/AskTheExpert/blogs/screencasts in the Java Web services stack. We plan to update this page on a regular basis.
A consolidated FAQ page with links to FAQ of each Web services technology.
Technologies tab classifies the Web services into Core, Enhanced and Secure. We hope you find this classification intuitive.
Reference tab serve all your documentation needs (tutorials, samples, tech articles, screencasts and others).
Community tab shows how we remain in touch with each other. For example, list of all the Web services related forums, all Web services blogs, all java.net projects. You can subscribe to the aggregated feed here.
Support tab is how you can get free and paid support on Web services. It has links to the different training paths Sun offers for Web services. It also has links to all issue trackers for each of the Web services projects.
Download tab has clear links to GlassFish download which is eventually how all the Web services technologies are delivered and to individual technology download, if that is what you like.

Leave a comment on this blog if you like the new look, don't like it or would like to see more/different content. Read Sekhar and Manveen's entry as well.

Happy surfing!

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Posted by Arun Gupta in webservices | Comments[2]

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Comments:

Thank you! The Java community needs more of this. Ideally, a good newbie-friendly Java XML overview site would show: How do I parse an XML doc? Which API? Does JAXP replace DOM/SAX? Simple code snippet to get started? How do I generate an XML doc? Which API? Simple code snippet to get started? How do I build an XML Web Service? Which API? I believe JAX-WS is the current API of choice. When would I use Apache Axis instead? Simple code snippet to get started? How do I consume an XML Web Service? Which API JAX-WS? NetBeans? Simple step-by-step to get started? My biggest Java pet peeve: When I search for an answer to "How do I do XYZ in Java?" (parse an XML doc, consume a web service, generate a web page, access a database, etc), I usually end up with one of two things: - I waste lots of time learning old APIs and techniques that have been long replaced by something much better. - I waste lots of time trying to get bleeding edge APIs working before realizing that they just aren't ready for prime time (JSF or EE 5 or Glassfish back in 2005)

Posted by javafan on April 12, 2007 at 09:25 AM PDT #

Very good feedback, esp. the last comments you had. I completely understand what you're saying, the painful experiences you've had. Those are definitely the areas we need to improve. As far as JAXP goes, our tech writer has been working on an independent JAXP tutorial which I think would answer the first few questions in your comment regarding reading/writing XML documents. JAXP was part of J2EE 1.4 tutorial. As you have already known technologies have evolved. So starting from J2EE 5, it's not longer in the J2EE 5 tutorial although StAX, the main addition to JAXP 1.4, is still in the J2EE 5 tutorial. Hope this infor. helps a little. Thanks.

Posted by Joe Wang on April 12, 2007 at 09:01 PM PDT #