Chapter 1. Introduction
The realm of Web services—software components that are programmatically accessible over standard Internet protocols—is expanding rapidly due to the growing need for application-to-application communication and interoperability. Web services expose a standard interface that is platform and technology independent. By conforming to accepted industry-wide standards, Web services provide a means of communication among software applications running on different platforms and written in different application development languages and that present dynamic context-driven information to the user.
Since its successful introduction in 1999, the J2EE platform has become an integrated standard for implementing and deploying portable ...
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