Chapter 11. Introduction to Web Services
Part III of the tutorial discusses Java EE 6 web services technologies. For this book, these technologies include Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).
The following topics are addressed here:
• “What Are Web Services?” on page 203
• “Types of Web Services” on page 203
• “Deciding Which Type of Web Service to Use” on page 206
What Are Web Services?
Web services are client and server applications that communicate over the World Wide Web’s (WWW) HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). As described by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web services provide a standard means of interoperating between software applications running on a variety of platforms and ...
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