Web service term

 

 

•         SOAP messages as Java objects

–        SAAJ ( SOAP with Attachments API for Java)

•         Programming Model

–        JAX-RPC ( JSR101), JSR109, EJB2.1

•         Accessing WSDL descriptions

–        JWSDL (JSR110)

•         Accessing Web Services Registries

–        JAXR (Java API for XML Registries

 

SOA:

 

-evolution of component based, Object Oriented development

--greater code reuse

--loosely coupled

--coarse grained

 

SOA is a software design principle and an architectural pattern for implementing loosely coupled reusable, and coarse grained services.

 

 

Web services

 

n       services who lives on Web

n       language and platform independent

n       for communication between different applications use language netual protocol such as http

 

 

SOAP

 

--xml-based lightweight protocol, allow components and applications to communicate with each other, mostly using http(can use SMTP).

 

 

WSDL

Web service description language, is a xml document that describes how messages are exchanged. It is the Interface definition language for web services.

 

UDDI

 

 

Universal description, discovery and integration

 

A way to publish and discover information about web services.

 

 

Java related api for web services:

 

JAX-RPC: Java api for xml based RPC.

JAXR: Java api for registries.