Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Web Services
Web services allow us to develop functionality that can be accessed across a network.
What makes web services different from other similar technologies such as EJBs is
that they are language and platform independent, which is to say, for example, a
web service developed in Java may be accessed by clients written in other languages,
and vice versa.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
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Introduction to web services
Creating a simple web service
Creating a web service client
Exposing EJBs as web services
Introduction to Web Services
Web services allow us to write functionality that can be accessed across a network in
a language and platform independent way.
There are two different approaches that are frequently used to develop web services:
the first approach is to use the
Simple Object Access Protocol
(
SOAP
), the second
approach is to use the
Representational State Transfer
(
REST
) protocol. NetBeans
supports creating web services using either approach.
In this chapter, we will focus on creating web services and web service
clients using the SOAP protocol. For more information regarding
RESTful web service development in NetBeans refer to the RESTful web
services tutorials at
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/
java-ee.html
.
