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JAXR

In Chapter 2, we looked at the role of registries in service-oriented architectures. The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) allows Java applications to communicate and interact with service registries and repositories for Web services. As corporations begin to develop an increasing number of services for consumption by business partners, or even internally within their organizations, they need a standard API to undertake this task of interacting with the registries. Using a vendor-, protocol-, or implementation-specific API for this purpose couples the Web service to the vendor implementation.

JAXR is a standard extension API which, like the other XML APIs, has been developed by the collaborative effort of the community as ...

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