Designing Web Services with the J2EE™ 1.4 Platform JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies

1.3. Challenges of Web Service Development

There are numerous challenges faced by Web service developers. Web services are a new paradigm, and, as such, they are far from mature. Because they are in their initial stages, Web services technologies are evolving rapidly and sometimes in unexpected directions. No matter what platform a developer chooses to use, there are some specific challenges to developing Web services. For one, technologies and standards are evolving. As a result, developers can expect that these technologies may change as they are extended to provide enhanced Web services support. While such changes may cause some difficulties early on, as time goes on developers should find that using technologies such as those offered with ...