Chapter 12. JAXP

By Steve Haines

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Throughout this book you have been learning the facets that make up Web services. The key to Web services' success is their inherent platform and language independence; and the key to their platform and language independence is XML.

By defining a specific set of XML files, a Web services client running on any platform in any programming language can locate and communicate with a Web services server, again running on any platform and written in any programming language.

As a Web services developer, therefore, you are going to have to become versed in using XML files inside your code. Sun has provided ...

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