Building Web Services with Java

The Holy War between Microsoft Corporation and Sun Microsystems is heating up as Sun unveils JAX Pack to compete with Microsoft's .NET initiativeJAX Pack is an all-in-one development kit that utilizes XML to build cross platform Web services. For companies that are developing Web services to collaborate with business partners, JAX Pack offers a faster way to develop applications while maintaining independence from any particular vendor's XML technologies. Developing Web Services with Java APIs for XML (JAX Pack) provides exhaustive coverage of Sun's recently released JAX Pack. The book assumes that readers are experienced Java developers with a solid understanding of XML. As such, the book contains five parts covering each component of JAX Pack. JAX ...

Web services are perhaps the most important feature of .NET development. They take componentization to a new level by allowing method calls to be made over the Internet or over an intranet using standard protocols such as HTTP and SOAP. This means that the calling application needs to know nothing about the internal implementation of the service - a web service built in C# on the .NET platform will (in theory) be indistinguishable from one built on Linux using Java. The .NET Framework provides two ways to build web services - ASP.NET and .NET Remoting. Unlike most books on web services, this book covers both of these technologies in depth. .NET Remoting web services require a little extra effort to build, but they offer us greater flexibility. They ...

One of the first books to cover Sun Microsystem's new Java Web Services Developer PackWritten by top Sun consultants with hands-on experience in creating Web services, with a foreword from Simon Phipps, Chief Evangelist at SunCase studies demonstrate how to create Web services with the tools most used by Java developers, including BEA WebLogic, Apache Axis, Systinet WASP, and Verisign...