Parts 1 through 3 of this four-part series on developing Web services in Java SE first presented an overview of Web services and Java SE’s support for developing them. The series then focused on ...

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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 ...

One of the things that I liked about WSDL/SOAP services is that a WSDL contract for a Web Service could be used to generate a client proxy that was guaranteed to work with your Web Service. With a ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

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 ...

Back in the old days — we’re talking, three, four years ago — there was a huge debate about the best approach to developing Web services: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) or REST (Representational ...