JAX and Web Services: The Great Car Parts Company Scenario

Let's now look at how the Great Car Parts Company can leverage the Web services environment and the Java APIs for XML to meet its business needs.

Recall that the Great Car Parts Company has decided to add mobile phone chargers to the list of items it sells. To buy the chargers, it discovers wholesalers for chargers, gets their price lists, decides on the best bid, and places procurement orders.

In the Web services scenario, Jack, the procurement person, asks the company's information services team to design and develop a procurement application for him. The information services team decides to use Java and JAX to develop the procurement application.

This is how the procurement application ...

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