In a world of microservices development and Docker-based deployments, RESTful web services tend to grab all the headlines. However, there's still a place in modern enterprise architectures for ...

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 ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

Should be a simple matter of getting Axis (of ev...), point wsdl2java to the web service's WSDL; it will generate Java code to call the web service for you. Well, there's Axis, Axis2, and XFire. A lot ...

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 ...