I have recently started studying Apache CXF, the open source web service framework. I am familiar with developing Web Services using EJB 3, Axis or Glue. But not with CXF. Until now.
CXF is a mix of two projects : Celtix and XFire, which explains the name CXF.
It provides support for the JAX-WS, JAX-RS and JAX-RPC specifications.
Developing Web Services using CXF and JBoss is quite easy. The only annoying part is to figure out which JARs libraries
to include in the classpath and which JARs libraries to exclude.
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January 2011
[Book review] Pro HTML5 Programming
I heard about this book after attending a presentation on HTML5 by one of its authors, Peter Lubbers. I found his demonstration about the offline cache, a new feature in HTML5, very interesting and so I wanted to know more about HTML5.
The book has an official site : http://www.prohtml5.com
In my opinion, this book is a good introduction in the new features of HTML5.
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