Learn Java Web Service

About Learn Java Web Service Android App

Web Services tutorial is designed for beginners and professionals providing basic and advanced concepts of web services such as protocols, SOAP, RESTful, java web service implementation, JAX-WS and JAX-RS tutorials and examples.

Web service is a technology to communicate one programming language with another. For example, java programming language can interact with PHP and .Net by using web services. In other words, web service provides a way to achieve interoperability.

Java Web Services API

There are two main API's defined by Java for developing web service applications since JavaEE 6.

1) JAX-WS: for SOAP web services. The are two ways to write JAX-WS application code: by RPC style and Document style.

2) JAX-RS: for RESTful web services. There are mainly 2 implementation currently in use for creating JAX-RS application: Jersey and RESTeasy.

How does a web service work?

A web service is used to communicate among various applications by using open standards such as HTML, XML, WSDL, and SOAP. You can build a Java-based web service on Solaris that is accessible from your Visual Basic program that runs on Windows. You can also use C# to build new web services on Windows that can be invoked from your web application that is based on JavaServer Pages (JSP) and runs on Linux.