Rajesh Sumra

Web services are a type of service that can be shared by and used as components of distributed, Web-based applications. They are based on a collection of standards and protocols that allow us to make processing requests to remote systems by speaking a common, nonproprietary language and using common protocols (like HTTP, SOAP). The Java API for XML-based remote procedure calls (JAX-RPC) simplifies the process of building Web services that incorporate XML-based RPC. It defines mappings between Java types and XML types that attempt to hide the details of XML and provide a familiar method-call paradigm. This article looks at how developers can use JAX-RPC to implement and call SOAP-based Web services described by the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) on the BEA WebLogic platform. JAX-RPC-Based Web Services JAX-RPC fully embraces the heterogeneous nature of Web s... (more)