If you want 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 contains the following chapters: Designing the interface for simple web services, web services Implementing, Optimizing the development environment, Understanding the process calls, Received several parameters, Sending and receiving complex data structures, Sending binary files, control the life cycle of your back end service object , signing and encrypting SOAP messages, Securing the Axis installation.