Microsoft helped launch the Web services movement and plans to sell both its .Net software–used to create Web services–and some of the services themselves. Sun was slow off the blocks, though, ...

For example, Workshop’s import function requires all Web service code files to be renamed with a .jws (Java Web Services) extension, and this has to be done with an additional modification required ...

Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice. The hype surrounding Web service ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...