NOTE: These slides have not been updated since 2003. They have been superseded by the book
An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies
Addison-Wesley, and the accompanying online material. Please see
http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/
for more information.
Anders Møller and Michael Schwartzbach, February 2006
INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES WITH JAVA
Web Services
A classification of Web services:
interactive
- where the client is a human being using a browser
developed using
Servlets
/
JSP
/
JWIG
/...
application-to-application
- where the client is some program
the topic of this tutorial...
Web services combine the
HTTP
communication protocol and the
XML
data format - and thereby get all the benefits from both worlds.
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