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

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

While you may already be familiar with XML, it is important to understand XML concepts from the point of view of applications handling XML documents....

An XML-based application, and in particular a Web service application, may consume or produce XML documents, and such an application may implement three distinct processing...

There are a number of considerations to keep in mind when designing XML-based applications, particularly Web service applications. For one, you may need to design...

You must make some decisions when formulating the implementation of an XML-based application. Briefly, you have to choose the XML programming models for your application....

It is important to consider performance when processing XML documents. XML document processing—handling the document in a pre- or post-processing stage to an application's business...

This chapter covered much of the considerations a developer should keep in mind when writing applications, particularly Web services-based applications, that use XML documents. Once...