About Web Services

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Web services are distributed application components that conform to standards that make them externally available. They solve the problem of integrating diverse computer applications that have been developed independently and run on a variety of software and hardware platforms. The proliferation of distributed environments has created a need for an enterprise to be able to expose all or part of the functionality of an application to other applications over an open network.

The promise of web services architecture is to allow you to connect applications that were developed on different platforms and in different programming languages. This can only work if vendors can agree on common standards.

There are two distinct web service programming models, both of which are supported by the IDE, the first is specific to the Java EE 5 specification, while the second is specific to the J2EE 1.4 specification:

Both programming models are based on the following three specifications:

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Working with Web Services
Web Service Tasks: Quick Reference
About Web Service Clients

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