June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
This chapter introduced web services—a set of technologies for building distributed systems in which system components communicate with one another over networks. In particular, we presented JAX-WS SOAP-based web services and JAX-RS REST-based web services. You learned that a web service is a class that allows client software to call the web service’s methods remotely via common data formats and protocols, such as XML, JSON, HTTP, SOAP and REST. We also benefits of distributed computing with web services.
We explained how NetBeans and the JAX-WS and JAX-RS APIs facilitate publishing and consuming web services. You learned how to define web services and methods using both SOAP protocol and REST architecture, and how to return data ...