Chapter 8. Building Web Services with JAX-RPC
JAX-RPC stands for Java API for XML-based RPC. JAX-RPC is a technology for building Web services and clients that use remote procedure calls (RPC) and XML. Often used in a distributed client-server model, an RPC mechanism enables clients to execute procedures on other systems.
In JAX-RPC, a remote procedure call is represented by an XML-based protocol such as SOAP. The SOAP specification defines the envelope structure, encoding rules, and conventions for representing remote procedure calls and responses. These calls and responses are transmitted as SOAP messages (XML files) over HTTP.
Although SOAP messages are complex, the JAX-RPC API hides this complexity from the application developer. On the ...
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