Thinking in JSP and Web Services

Web services shouldn't be thought of as a different outside toolset. Rather, Web services should be thought of as a new construct that JSP programmers have in their arsenal to implement. Over time, the concepts of using Web services will become as familiar as using tag libraries to a JSP programmer.

JSP programmers have six methods at their disposal with which to encapsulate their code:

  1. Scriptlet in the JSP page

  2. JavaBean object

  3. Tag library

  4. Web service

  5. Servlet

  6. Applet or client-side code

A JSP programmer can tackle any type of system with these six coding styles. From a programming point of view, a Web service is merely a distributed function the JSP programmer is accessing. Using a Web service is nothing new to a JSP ...

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