April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
371 pages
10h 14m
English
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Chapter 6. Java and Web Services
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the axe. | ||
| --Abraham Lincoln | ||
Java, a technology created by Sun Microsystems, should be the ideal partner for Web services. In addition to having much in common, they complement each other. One could even say that they are synergistic. One could go on to claim that Java applets were a kind of precursor to today’s XML Web services. It is worth noting that Java applets are defined as being “small applications” that are delivered over the Web. The similarity of this definition to the one for Web services is inescapable and irresistible. But there are also some obvious and fundamental differences between these two highly Web-centric methodologies. ...