Chapter 28. Web Services
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. | ||
| --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
They also serve who only stand and wait. | ||
| --John Milton | ||
...if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. | ||
| --Eleonora Duse | ||
Protocol is everything | ||
| --Francoise Giuliani | ||
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you will learn:
What a web service is.
How to publish and consume Java web services in Netbeans.
The elements that comprise web services, such as service descriptions and classes that implement web services.
How to create client desktop and web applications that invoke web service methods.
The important part that XML and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) play in enabling web services.
How to use ...
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