Chapter 8. Application Architecture and Design

Previous chapters in this book described different design considerations and motivations for Web services. They also described the various J2EE technologies used for implementing Web services and showed how developers might apply these technologies in an application. Where possible, the chapters offered guidelines for good design and highlighted the advantages and disadvantages among the technologies.

In this chapter, we illustrate how to apply these guidelines to the design and implementation of a real Web service application, the adventure builder enterprise. When architecting and designing Web service applications, you are faced with the significant challenge of constructing the various application ...

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