Deepal Jayasinghe
Deepal Jayasinghe is a Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology and he is affiliated with Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Technical Lead at WSO2 Inc., an open-source software development company that creates middleware platforms for Web services. Deepal has over 6 years of experiences with SOA and Web services in addition to being a contributing member of Apache Axis2 project since its inception. He is a key architect and developer of the Apache Axis2 Web service project and has led a number of releases. In addition to Axis2, he has made major contributions to the Apache Synapse, Apache Axiom and Apache XMLSchema projects. Deepal has written two books (Quickstart Apache Axis2 and Apache Axis2 Web Services) and more than 30 technical magazine articles, research papers and has delivered speeches in various SOA and Web Services conferences. He is an Apache Member and PMC members at several Apache projects. His expertise lay mainly in distributed computing, SOA and Web services, Cloud computing, and performance analysis.
In this tutorial, I will take you from deploying Axis2 to deploying your first Axis2 web service, writing synchronous and asynchronous clients, generating client using WSDL, and extending Axis2 with modules such as reliable messaging and security. The tutorial is designed for programmers who have some simple experience of SOAP and/or XML.
