Sorry about the problems for our friends in India. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.
If you cannot get a copy of my book, I would suggest that you start with Sun's
J2EE 1.4 tutorial to start learning about JAX-RPC and other Web Service APIs. Its not the best tutorial in the world, but it a good place to start and will give you some hand's on experience.
Here is the link:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html Specifically, I would focus my time on these chapters from the J2EE 1.4 tutorial:
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: XML
Chapter 4: JAXP
Chapter 5: SAX
Chapter 6: DOM
Chapter 8: JAX-RPC
Chapter 9: SAAJ
Chapter 10: JAXR
Chapter 32: Security
Appendix B:
Appendix C:
You will have noticed that I only recommend a few of the 30+ chapters. I tried to choose those chapters that focused on Web services, rather than
JSP, EJB,
JSF, etc. Having said that, you may need to read the
Servlet chapter to understand JAX-RPC Service Endpoints - others will not. If you run into a topic you don't understand that is necessary to understanding one of the Web Services APIs, than
you should go back and read that chapter. The assumption, however, is that people taking the
test have a basic understanding of the J2EE architecture and its basic components (EJBs, Servlets, JSPs).
I hope this helps!
Richard