Java™ Performance

11. Web Services Performance

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that enables complex business applications to be built from smaller individual services distributed over the network. It has become the industry’s de facto standard for building and deploying business solutions that are agile enough to meet the demands of business partners and customers. Web services have emerged as the most widely used technology for implementing SOA. A Web service is a software system accessible over a network that supports machine-to-machine interaction. It is a platform and programming language neutral system that exposes standardized interfaces accessible over a set of standard Internet communication protocols; typically described ...