Hour 22. Creating Web Services with JAX-WS

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Defining a Java interface for a web service

• Applying this interface to a Java class

• Deploying a web service on the Internet

• Viewing a web service contract

• Creating a web service client

Now that the Internet is everywhere, driving millions of desktop computers, web servers, phones, videogame consoles, and other devices, the desire to connect them all together has given rise to web services, software that communicates with other software over HTTP, the protocol of the Web.

One of the most exciting new features of Java is the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS). JAX-WS is a set of packages and classes that create clients that make requests of web services and ...

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