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

Web services interact with clients to receive the clients' requests and return responses. In between the request and the response, a Web service applies appropriate...

Let's revisit the scenarios introduced in "Typical Web Service Scenarios" on page 11—the adventure builder enterprise scenario and the examples illustrating when Web services work...

In a Web service scenario, a client makes a request to a particular Web service, such as asking for the weather at a certain location,...

Now that you understand what happens in a Web service interaction, let us look further at the issues involved in the design and implementation of...

A service's interaction layer has several major responsibilities, and chief among them is the design of the interface the service presents to the client. Since...

The processing layer is where the business logic is applied to a Web service request. Recall that Web service is an interoperable way to expose...

Up to now, this chapter has covered guidelines for designing and implementing your Web service. Just as important, your Web service needs to be accessible...

Up to now, this chapter addressed issues applicable to all Web service implementations. There are additional considerations when a Web service implementation expects to receive...

Up to now, we have examined Web services on the J2EE platform in terms of design, development, and implementation. Once you complete the Web services...

This chapter began with a description of Web service fundamentals. It described the underlying flow of a typical Web service on the Java platform, showing...