Now that Web services have firmly established themselves in the enterprise, developers face mounting pressure to keep up with the latest development and deployment technologies — sometimes even before ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

Java Web Service Development Kit (JWSDK) is used write a simple Web service called CurrencyConvertor, which accepts an integer value (dollars), multiplies it with the current rupee value of a dollar ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

A revision to a much-anticipated Java standard will be delayed about three months in order to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable. Sun Microsystems, which controls the ...

Servlet is a Java program that extends the functionality of a Web server, generating dynamic content and interacting with Web applications using a request-response paradigm. Creating a Web service ...