June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
23h 48m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
This book is an introduction to, and a quick reference for, the Java APIs for web services as implemented in the J2EE 1.4 platform. This chapter begins with a high-level overview of web services, using a real-world example to show why you might need to create one and how it would differ from a traditional HTML-based web application. It then moves on to introduce the technologies that have been developed to enable web services and describes how those technologies have been made available to Java developers. The chapter closes by demonstrating the steps required to build a client application that can communicate with and present information from the web service interface provided by the online bookseller Amazon.com.
What Is a Web Service?
In early 2002, Sun Microsystems released the first version of their Java Web Services Developer’s Pack (JWSDP). This large download contained everything that a developer needs to begin creating web services using the Java platform. When it appeared, the questions that most developers immediately asked were just exactly what is a web service and why should I be interested in finding out how to build or use one? If, at that time, you looked around the bookstores and the Internet for an answer to these questions, your conclusion would most likely have been that there was plenty of hype, promise, and marketing talk from those companies interested in promoting web services to other companies (and in particular to their Chief Technology ...
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