Successful deployment of Java-based Web services requires detailed knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts behind Web services, different Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

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 ...

The Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) provides support for Web Service calls using the SOAP/HTTP protocol. JAX-RPC defines the mapping between Java classes and XML as used in SOAP RPC calls.