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 ...

The result is that a J2EE 1.4-based application can be invoked as a Web service, even from applications not written in the Java programming language. While that is an evolutionary step for J2EE, since ...

The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

MAINTAINING A GRASP on Web services development platforms and environments can be a challenge. To help developers remain familiar with these innovations, IBM has released the next iteration of its ...