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 ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

Now that Web services have firmly established themselves in the enterprise, developers face mounting pressure to keep up with the latest development and deployment technologies — sometimes even before ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you have a WSDL file and need to create a SOAP web service, the process is relatively simple.

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

"Microsoft actually supports what people are calling 'Web services' - SOAP, xML, etc. - better than Java," says Randy Starr, Countermind's director of mobile and wireless solutions practice.