Developing Web Services with Apache Axis

If you'd like to learn how to create web services (in particular, using Apache Axis) and make some sense of various standards like SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RPC, SOAP with attachments, WS-Security, XML Encryption and XML Signature, then this book is for you. It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner to create working code. The first 40 pages are freely available on http://agileskills2.org/DWSAA. You can judge it yourself.