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CHAPTER 11
Providing Web Services
Web services provide a powerful, platform-independent way to support distributed computing by leveraging the ubiquitous infrastructure used for the World Wide Web. With Web services, Java functions can be made easily accessible to other languages. Java can also access Web services written in other languages and hosted on other platforms.
In this chapter, we discuss the use of open source tools for implementing Web services. The primary tool we’re going to use is Apache Axis, which is the leading open source implementation of Sun’s JAX/RPC standard. JAX/RPC is a Java-centric Web services API that builds upon other Web services standards such as SOAP and WSDL. We’ll look at all these standards and examine their role within the J2EE enterprise architecture
