Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML

The realm of Web services—software components that are programmatically accessible over standard Internet protocols—is expanding rapidly due to the growing need for application-to-application communication...

Standards and Technologies This chapter describes current, universally accepted Web Service standards and the J2EE platform's support for these standards. The Web services computing...

Service Endpoint Design Web services interact with clients to receive the clients' requests and return responses. In between the request and the response, a...

XML Processing Web service applications often pass information using XML documents. Application developers whose applications accept XML documents must understand how best to extract...

Client Design Web services take the Web client model to the next level. Developers can write far more powerful clients whose interaction with Web...

Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise information systems—the collection of relational and legacy database systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and mainframe transaction processing systems—provide the...

Security Virtually every enterprise application exposed through a Web service has a need for security at some level. An enterprise's data is an important...

Application Architecture and Design Previous chapters in this book described different design considerations and motivations for Web services. They also described the various J2EE...