The Java platform provides a top-to-bottom, end-to-end solution for a Web services architecture. From the client end to the server end, from rich clients at the top of the heap to the smallest clients ...

Roles in the Basic Web Services Architecture can take on one or more responsibilities. Typically, a Service Requestor is a role that calls upon a Web service, while a Service Provider is one that ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

A core concept that underlies the architecture involves crosscutting concerns. A "concern" is any concept related to the system. For example, in a banking application, crediting and debiting customer ...

I’d like to briefly expose a few prevalent Web services notions that may be slowing the adoption of Web services and SOA. This will be a multipart series, so let’s begin Part 1. What is a Web services ...

With all that said, it is fair to say this is the era of Web services hype. As a marketing phenomenon, the Web services hype is riding on a wave of XML hype, which in turn is helping to promote ...