In a world of microservices development and Docker-based deployments, RESTful web services tend to grab all the headlines. However, there's still a place in modern enterprise architectures for ...

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 ...

Jini and EJBs (Enterprise JavaBeans) provide a terrific basis for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services. But SOAP is just a slightly advanced form of remote procedure calling, and ...

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 Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...