The Web Services Tutorial

If you are looking to get started with web services development, these series of my blog should provide you enough details with tutorials on how to go about developing web services.

Web Service Interoperability

This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog, I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first and contract web services. In this blog, I would describe how to invoke .NET web services using JAX-WS.

The promise of web services lies is the interoperability between services that are running on different platforms and implemented using different programming…

Intercepting Soap Messages

This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog, I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first and contract web services. In this blog, I would describe how to intercept soap messages.

Many web service design uses soap headers to send information which it not related to actual payload of the message, like user id and password for…

Creating Contract First web services using JAX-WS Stack

This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog, I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first web services. In this blog, I would describe how to create Contract first web services.

With Contract First approach for web services development, you start off with defining the XML Schema/WSDL contract for your service instead of Java code. One…

JAX-WS Stack for Developing Code First Web Services

Java API for XML Web services (JAX-WS) is a technology designed to simplify the construction of web services and web service clients in Java. Before looking at the API’s and features offered in the JAX-WS stack, let’s understand the need for a web service stack.

As web services uses SOAP as the communication protocol, web service clients interacting with web services needs to formulate the soap request message, which comprises…

Looking at Apache Wink JAX-RS framework

Apache Wink is a Java based framework for building RESTful applications. It provides implementation of JAX-RS specification and is currently under Apache incubation.

Apache wink provides a service module for developing JAX-RS compatible RESTful services and client modules for creating RESTful clients. Apart from JAX-RS standard representations, Apache Wink provides and ability to expose resources using various representations formats like RSS, Atom and CSS formats.

From the official site -

“Apache Wink…