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Another type of Web Services, which do not use SOAP as the mechanism of communication , is
called RESTful Web Services.
The Representation State Transfer (REST) is an approach that makes creation and accessing of
Web Services simple.
REST does not use session management, or SOAP messaging, but instead makes Web Services
available as if they are standard HTML pages, in terms of access.
Web Services can be created easily in Java using Java Web Services (JWS).
AJAX is a technique for making Web pages more responsive.
AJAX is based on a combination of JavaScript and XML.
Using AJAX, a client can send ...