Web Services Support
Web Services Support
transport protocols to exchange data with calling clients. The Java EE platform provides the
XML APIs and tools you need to quickly design, develop, test, and deploy web services and
clients that fully interoperate with other web services and clients running on Java-based or
non-Java-based platforms.
to the method calls and process the data returned; or for document-oriented web services, you
send documents containing the service data back and forth. No low-level programming is
needed because the XML API implementations do the work of translating the application data
to and from an XML-based data stream that is sent over the standardized XML-based transport
protocols. These XML-based standards and protocols are introduced in the following sections.
and clients written with the Java EE XML APIs fully interoperable. This does not necessarily
mean that the data being transported includes XML tags because the transported data can itself
be plain text, XML data, or any kind of binary data such as audio, video, maps, program files,
computer-aided design (CAD) documents and the like. The next section introduces XML and
explains how parties doing business can use XML tags and schemas to exchange data in a
meaningful way.
is exchanged between parties, the parties are free to create their own tags to describe the data, set
up schemas to specify which tags can be used in a particular kind of XML document, and use
XML stylesheets to manage the display and handling of the data.
that receive the price lists and schema can have their own stylesheets to handle the data in a way
that best suits their needs. Here are examples:
to HTML so that it can post the price lists to its intranet.
marketing presentation.
processing.