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INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................. 3
SELECTING A LINUX DISTRIBUTION ......................................................................................................... 3
INSTALLING AN OPEN SOURCE DATABASE............................................................................................. 4
SELECTING A JAVA ENVIRONMENT .......................................................................................................... 6
DEVELOPING THE JAVA COMPONENTS ................................................................................................... 6
CONFIGURING THE WEB SERVICES PLATFORM ................................................................................. 10
INSTALLING THE J2EE WEB CONTAINER............................................................................................................. 10
INSTALLING THE WEB SERVICES CONTAINER ...................................................................................................... 10
DEVELOPING THE WEB SERVICE.............................................................................................................. 12
CREATING THE WEB SERVICES INTERFACE.......................................................................................................... 12
GENERATING THE SERVER-SIDE BINDINGS .......................................................................................................... 13
PACKAGING AND DEPLOYING THE SERVICE ........................................................................................................ 14
BUILDING THE APPLICATION WITH ANT............................................................................................... 15
CONFIGURING THE BUILD ENVIRONMENT ........................................................................................................... 15
CREATING THE BUILD SCRIPT ............................................................................................................................. 16
RUNNING THE ANT BUILD SCRIPT ....................................................................................................................... 16
TESTING THE WEB SERVICE....................................................................................................................... 18
INVOKING THE SERVICE ...................................................................................................................................... 18
MONITORING THE SERVICE ................................................................................................................................. 18
TESTING THE SERVICE ........................................................................................................................................ 19
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................................................... 22
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................................... 22
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