Java Web services

News - API evangelist Kin Lane spreads the word about APIs, shedding light on the pitfalls and challenges of opening a public API, as well as the benefits.

News - Highly anticipated, the new Oracle certification for Java, OCAJP, went out of beta on December 17th, 2011. So when will the new exam be released? And when will the OCPJP exam be released?

News - In order to obtain the certified architect position from Oracle, attending and passing a training course is now required. But what about the Java Professional and Java Associate designations, OCPJP and OCAJP for Java 7?

News - ActiveMQ is one of the most popular open source JMS containers available today. At the TSSJS this March in Las Vegas, architect Jeff Genender will discuss architecture issues in implementing the ActiveMQ message broker in enterprises, including common...

News - Red Hat JBoss recently released a new module for its Seam 3 Framework, Seam XML 3.0.0 Alpha 1. The XML module uses XML-based bean declarations for defining additional beans, or augmenting the beans defined via annotations.

Article - SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. The single most important problem that SAML was created to solve is the Web browser Single Sign-On problem. Today, many organizations debate...

Article - Global online services such as Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, and Google serve millions of customers through tens of thousands of servers located world-wide. On this immense scale, components fail continuously and it is very difficult to maintain a...

Article - In this article, we jettison XML gluecode for "convention over configuration". Using the SmartURLs plugin for Struts 2, we can autowire Action classes to page templates with search-engine-optimized URIs.

Article - SOAP applications often have to deal with more than just simple messages. The payload for a SOAP message can often include a word processing or PDF document, image, or other binary file. This article explains how to use the Message Transmission...

Article - It's an exciting time to be in open source web services development. Two new next-generation web services frameworks have been released in the last year and a half, both under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. These frameworks are Apache...