JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Building a Corporate Web Service

A corporate Web service's implementation is the same as any other Web service. The difference is merely in usage. Rather than broadcasting the service for outside projects to use, the Web service will only be used by internal corporate projects. It should be mentioned that a corporate Web service might not be intranet-based, but rather based over the Internet. This would make sense when a company has many sites across the Internet, but not necessarily on the same internal network. An internal service could still be exposed on the Internet in order to allow your various sites access to the Web service. When this is the case, some additional steps of security should be taken to prevent other entities from accessing ...