I created this Web Services with JAX-RPC and Axis Presentation[PPT] for a talk at Web Developers' Conference organized by Technology Association of Georgia. The presentation included demo of a simple program and code walk-through. The presentation and the sources can be downloaded in a single bundle[ZIP]. The detailed instructions for running the program are in the presentation itself.

The presentation has 3 main parts:

• Web Services in Perspective -- Basic introdcution of Web Services and brief round-up of earlier technolgoies that preceded Web Services.
• Web Services Standards -- Wire standards for interoperability and Java APIs for portability.
• JAX-RPC and Apache Axis -- How do you write programs with JAX-RPC API and run them with Apache Axis.

If you want to run the programs and use the batch script setenv.bat to set the classpath, modify the batch file so that environment variable AXIS_HOME points to your installation directory for Apache Axis.

Note: If you find the presentation useful or notice defects or simply feel that I should have addressed few more issues, let me know. If I get many such mails, I may be able to motivate myself to update/revise/improve this presentation.