A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

The Java platform provides a top-to-bottom, end-to-end solution for a Web services architecture. From the client end to the server end, from rich clients at the top of the heap to the smallest clients ...

Roles in the Basic Web Services Architecture can take on one or more responsibilities. Typically, a Service Requestor is a role that calls upon a Web service, while a Service Provider is one that ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

Sun Microsystems is launching consulting services for its Java server software to advise companies how to adopt modern system designs. The initiative, called SOA Path, offers services meant to help ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

I’d like to briefly expose a few prevalent Web services notions that may be slowing the adoption of Web services and SOA. This will be a multipart series, so let’s begin Part 1. What is a Web services ...