The hype surrounding Web service technologies continues to swell, with acronyms like XML, UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP becoming commonplace. Both Microsoft and Sun have recast their direction to embrace Web ...

Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Before there was EJB 3.0 and the annotation based approach to SOAP web services creation, there ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

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While XML-transparent Web service development might sound like the easy way to go, understanding and manipulating XML in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages can actually avoid some ...