28.9. Wrap-Up
This chapter introduced JAX-WS 2.0 web services, which promote software portability and reusability in applications that operate over the Internet. You learned that a web service is a software component stored on one computer that can be accessed by an application (or other software component) on another computer over a network, communicating via such technologies as XML, SOAP and HTTP. We discussed several benefits of this kind of distributed computing—e.g., clients can access data on remote machines, clients lacking the processing power to perform specific computations can leverage remote machines’ resources and entirely new types of innovative applications can be developed.
We explained how Netbeans, Sun Java Studio Creator ...
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