Java in the cloud

Cloud computing is changing the face of application development. Businesses are finding ways to save on costs and increase scalability with cloud services. The success of web service applications and Software as a Service (SaaS) has led to growing acceptance of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Cloud computing resources provide Java developers with the ability to build out new projects at a low cost and scale up quickly if those Java cloud services are successful. In this section, learn about Java cloud computing and Java Web services applications including Java Web services, cloud application testing and ALM in the cloud.

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Feature 07 Jul 2022
Is HTML a programming language?

Unlike Java, Python or C, HTML is not a programming language because it lacks variables, conditional statements or iterative loops. But so what? HTML has a bigger role to play. Continue Reading
Tip 20 Jan 2020
Beat vendor lock-in with a cloud exit strategy

Without a comprehensive cloud exit strategy, an organization might fall victim to vendor lock-in and find itself dependent on proprietary tools and services. Continue Reading

Feature 16 Jul 2019

Weigh cost, flexibility in your Java cloud IDE comparisons

What's in a cloud IDE for Java developers? Flexibility and integration for starters. Consider these four options in your development environment and be sure to focus on costs. Continue Reading
News 07 Jun 2019

Pivotal Spring Runtime extends Java support, company lifeline

Pivotal's distribution of OpenJDK, the open source version of Java, joins the ranks of Amazon, Azul, IBM, Red Hat and others that provide long-term Java support. Continue Reading
Feature 26 Apr 2019

Use entropy as a service to bolster your security

Cryptographic keys help improve security in your enterprise. Consider entropy as a way to safeguard your data and prevent hackers from picking your locks with faulty keys. Continue Reading
News 07 Mar 2019

Red Hat eyes cloud-native Java future with Quarkus

Red Hat's Quarkus project aims to raise Java up to the cloud and update the popular programming language for cloud-based computing situations and projects. Continue Reading
Blog Post 01 Oct 2018

Women in Cybersecurity: Bringing Balance to the Equation

The world of technology is exciting. And confusing. And dangerous. And full of potential. For women, privacy and security are concepts that go hand in hand. Today’s technology has created new ways ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 01 Jun 2018

Top-down web service creation example in Java using Eclipse

Creating a SOAP web service in Eclipse is easy if you have a WSDL file. This top-down web service approach example in Java using Eclipse tutorial shows how. Continue Reading
Blog Post 09 May 2018

Smart Compose and the Visual Positioning System impress at Google I/O

This year's Google I/O conference kicked off on May 8 with a nearly two-hour keynote. The keynote was held at the outdoor Shoreline Amphitheater near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 22 Jan 2018

Cybersecurity risk management doesn’t need to be all or nothing

Cybersecurity risk management should be a concern for organizations of all sizes, with fresh threats and data breaches making the news every few days. Continue Reading
Blog Post 22 Nov 2017

Twelve ways to be a more trustworthy serverless services vendor

Serverless services may be the big trend in IT these days, but it's still a service-full world out there, and virtually every organization is relying on third party services to keep their ... Continue Reading
Guide 21 Nov 2017

Everything to know about overcoming digital transformation challenges

As organizations adopt new technologies, like blockchain, IoT devices and deep learning, strategies must be developed to address inevitable digital transformation challenges. Continue Reading
Blog Post 06 Nov 2017

From monoliths to cloud native composition with Apprenda's Sinclair Schuller

In our series on cloud native computing, TheServerSide spoke with a number of experts in the field, including a number of members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The following is the ... Continue Reading
Feature 09 Oct 2017

How blockchain security is driving digital transformations

Whether it is a secure cloud, a secure mobile device or a secure IOT interaction, organizations are making blockchain security a central part of their digital transformations. Continue Reading
News 05 Oct 2017

Azure Functions, Project Fn shine at JavaOne 2017

At JavaOne 2017, Microsoft previews its Azure Functions serverless offering with support for Java; Oracle introduces Project Fn, which runs across multiple clouds and also supports Java. Continue Reading
Podcast 04 Oct 2017

Manico and Grimstad bring Java tech to life at JavaOne 2017

Engaging speakers like Jim Manico or Ivar Grimstad can make all the difference when choosing a session at a conference like JavaOne 2017 than the session syllabus. Continue Reading
Conference Coverage 04 Oct 2017

Guide to the JavaOne 2017 conference

At JavaOne 2017, the Java community discusses the pinnacles of modern software technologies, including DevOps, mobile applications, digital transformation and, of course, Java. Continue Reading
Podcast 03 Oct 2017

How Java EE Security and MVC 1.0 simplify Java microservices

Once the decision has been made to use containers and microservices, it's good to know that MVC 1.0 and the Java EE Security API will make the development process much easier. Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Oct 2017

Java SE 9 a perfect fit for a nimble, scalable and serverless future

Last year’s JavaOne conference generated quite a bit of excitement with the discussion of many of the new Java SE 9 features. But this year’s event is already proving to be more groundbreaking. ... Continue Reading
News 02 Oct 2017

How JSR-375 simplifies and standardizes Java EE security

Java EE security has always been a mixed bag in terms of simplicity and standardization, but the new Java EE Security API, JSR-375, plans to change all of that. Continue Reading
Podcast 27 Sep 2017

Cloud-native apps push static code analysis tools to the limit

The distributed nature of a cloud-native architecture, with microservices deployed to a multitude of containers, can test the limits of static code analysis tools. Continue Reading
News 22 Sep 2017

CloudBees, partners add Jenkins services, security

CloudBees, the steward of the Jenkins DevOps platform, has teamed up with partners to provide managed Jenkins services, as well as new security features and database support. Continue Reading
Feature 13 Sep 2017

How to remove plain text passwords for a secure Java code base

Here are some strategies to remove plain text passwords from configuration files and your code base. It's one way a secure Java app can deter a malicious attack. Continue Reading
Feature 12 Sep 2017

Containers and microservices complicate cloud-native security

As microservices-based applications are deployed to a sea of Docker containers, mitigating against cloud-native security issues is becoming a struggle. Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 Sep 2017

How to create secure Java software: A talk with Black Duck's Tim Mackey

In TheServerSide's ongoing coverage of developing secure Java software, I spoke recently with Tim Mackey, the IT evangelist for Black Duck Software. The conversation was interesting enough to pull ... Continue Reading
Podcast 07 Sep 2017

Microservices and containers can simplify DevOps security

You would think that managing a sea of containers and microservices would make DevOps security difficult, but it may, in fact, make DevSecOps easier. Continue Reading
Blog Post 01 Sep 2017

Implementing cloud-native security means going back to your secure coding basics

There's really nothing new under the sun when it comes to addressing security vulnerabilities in code. While there has been a great shift in terms of how server side application are architected, ... Continue Reading
Feature 28 Aug 2017

The hidden threat lurking in an otherwise secure software stack

All it takes is a fork from the main branch and a re-branding of the code, and the next thing you know, there's a hidden threat in your software. Here's how to protect against it. Continue Reading
Podcast 21 Aug 2017

DevSecOps tools maturing, much to the relief of DevOps developers

DevOps has placed a greater burden on the software developer in terms of securing the public cloud. DevSecOps tools are helping to reduce the DevOps developer's burden. Continue Reading
Feature 21 Aug 2017

Avoiding the most common DevOps security vulnerabilities in the cloud

When applying DevOps principles, like continuous automation and continuous delivery, many organizations are creating DevOps security vulnerabilities in their public cloud. Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Aug 2017

Implementing a custom user registry to consolidate LDAP servers and active directories?

Should you implement a custom user registry to help mitigate access to your various LDAP servers in order to simplify security tasks such as authentication and group association? The answer to that ... Continue Reading
Feature 07 Aug 2017

Edge device developers not addressing IoT security vulnerabilities

Security is problematic when software is deployed behind firewalls, but when you have edge devices out in the wild, IoT security vulnerabilities become even more of a concern. Continue Reading
Opinion 01 Jun 2017

Standardized data the key to making cloud storage a commodity

Wouldn't it be nice if accessing cloud storage solutions were as easy as plugging in a toaster? Standardized data is the key. Cloud storage as a commodity is the future. Continue Reading
Blog Post 09 May 2017

IBM's Watson is a joke, and Oracle won't be 'winning' for long

Hedge Fund manager Kyle Bass used to be my favorite industry analyst, but after watching a short, fire-breathing, three minute clip from CNBC's Closing Bell, I think Social Capital CEO, Chamath ... Continue Reading
Feature 17 Apr 2017

Tips for avoiding external and internal API performance issues

After convincing users to integrate into your system, the last thing you want is for them to suffer from API performance issues. Ensure users that API performance isn't a problem. Continue Reading
Blog Post 06 Apr 2017

From the JSF 2.3 release to the Amazon AWS outage, we're taking shots at easy targets

Watching both the tech industry as well as mainstream media oversimplify the February 2017 Amazon S3 outage story annoyed me greatly. The annoyance transitioned into keystrokes, producing two ... Continue Reading
Podcast 03 Apr 2017

Container tools fighting hard to keep up with the Docker trend

Tooling often lags behind big technology trends, which is why the container tools industry is being forced to mature quickly as Docker adoption takes off. Continue Reading
Blog Post 28 Mar 2017

One does not simply 'stop calling' Java's deprecated methods

They're deprecating the finalize method, adding another method to the long list of Java deprecated methods that tend not to get pruned out of the JDK's code base. Continue Reading
Blog Post 26 Jan 2017

IoT entrepreneurship on display at North Texas hackathon

What better way to promote IoT entrepreneurship than by sponsoring a hackathon and awarding prizes that come with business development guidance to the winners? Continue Reading
Blog Post 09 Jan 2017

Looking ahead for 2017: Java, Containers, microservices, ALM and more

Each year at TheServerSide we map out at the beginning of the year, looking ahead at what the hot topics of the year are going to be, a list of topics upon which we will focus on from month to ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 04 Jan 2017

Java 9, Docker and Big Data: What are your New Year resolutions?

It's a New Year, and software developers make resolutions. Learning Docker, writing about Java 9 and playing with Big Data tools are my resolutions. What are yours? Continue Reading
Blog Post 12 Dec 2016

Hate your job? Improving the ALM process might help

If you ask Damon Edwards, Founder of SimplifyOps, and IT Skeptic Rob England, there’s a dirty little secret in the IT industry: a very high percentage of IT professionals hate their jobs. In fact, ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 17 Nov 2016

Three things you didn’t know about Golang, NoSql, and Cloud

The tech evolution is occurring so rapidly that yesterday’s opinions are often invalid today. Here's some currently valid insights into Golang, NoSQL and Cloud Continue Reading
Podcast 09 Nov 2016

How Agile transformations are sparked by successful DevOps adoption

Tasktop's Mik Kersten discusses how successful DevOps adoption projects often lead to large Agile transformations. Continue Reading
Blog Post 01 Nov 2016

Multi-modal NoSQL and cloud based microservices hot topics at JavaOne 2016

From cloud based microservices to multi-modal NoSQL, there was plenty to learn, propose, and discuss at JavaOne 2016 Continue Reading
Blog Post 12 Oct 2016

IoT security tips: Five ways developers can help thwart IoT malware threats

From device spoofing to malware, information disclosure, and DOS attacks, there are many ways a compromised device can become a threat. Here are ways to keep your devices safe. Continue Reading
Blog Post 21 Sep 2016

Transitioning Java EE to the cloud now more of a priority than ever

Enterprise Java was a topic of intense focus during the opening keynote at the JavaOne 2016 conference this year. As expected, Oracle had many proposals for how the EE platform can be made more ... Continue Reading
Guide 19 Sep 2016

News from JavaOne 2016

What is new with Java in 2016? Here you'll find the most up to date conference news from JavaOne in San Francisco. Continue Reading
Feature 16 Sep 2016

Building 3D apps for the future of manufacturing

Find out how 3D app developers are taking advantage of Autodesk's new cloud-based services to build and improve data integration services. Continue Reading
Feature 29 Aug 2016

Evaluating how second-generation DevOps tooling stacks up

As more organizations adopt DevOps strategies, there is a growing need to evaluate the various DevOps tooling options. Continue Reading
Feature 26 Aug 2016

The Agile lifecycle is changing the face of Java ALM

As organizations respond to shorter development cycles, the Agile lifecycle is changing the way Java-based organizations do ALM. Continue Reading
Feature 24 Aug 2016

Fighting censorship through anonymous browsing with the Hola app

From avoiding censorship to avoiding government controls, the Hola app has simplified anonymous browsing for its clients. Continue Reading
Blog Post 23 Aug 2016

Governance isn't enough when it comes to designing secure software

As blue tooth enabled storage devices move in and out of secured facilities, organizations must realize that governance isn't enough. Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Aug 2016

Fully automatic live reloading of Spring Boot apps on AWS

In this post we're going to take a look at one of Spring Boot's best kept secrets: the Spring Boot DevTools. Continue Reading
Podcast 18 Jul 2016

Managed services model addresses cloud-based analysis paralysis

For many applications, an Amazon or Azure cloud might be overkill. In such cases, a managed services model approach just might be the better option, and here's why. Continue Reading
News 22 Jun 2016

New Docker tools to revolutionize the desktop OS

Software containers are a powerful technology, but, finally, Docker tools for Windows and Mac will bring usability to the masses. Continue Reading
News 22 Jun 2016

Appease DevOps concerns with container as a service Docker deployments

At DockerCon 2016, the big trend from exhibitors is the container as a service, creating a smooth path for Docker adoption. Continue Reading
News 21 Jun 2016

Docker security, container performance the hot topics at DockerCon 2016

Operation teams are always concerned about software vulnerabilities, but at DockerCon 2016, vendors are working hard to allay those Docker security concerns. Continue Reading
News 21 Jun 2016

Simple Docker image acquisition the key to IBM's container strategy

By making it easier for clients to acquire a Docker image, IBM hopes to see more enterprises adopting a container-based development strategy. Continue Reading
Feature 25 Mar 2016

The five keys to mastering software analytics, logging and reporting

Simply turning on an analytics engine, going over logs and generating a report isn't enough to understand your software. Here are five keys to getting the most out of your analytics. Continue Reading
Tip 18 Mar 2016

Automated acceptance testing pitfalls to avoid

How can organizations get the most out of their software testing with the least amount of effort? Here are some best practices on how to sidestep these common automated acceptance testing traps. Continue Reading
Podcast 26 Feb 2016

Are reactive systems the future of software architecture?

Building with microservices and asynchronous messages is a start, but according to Typesafe's 'Going Reactive 2016' survey, reactive systems are the future of software architecture. Continue Reading
Podcast 26 Feb 2016

Solving the problem of scaling Agile across the enterprise

Small to medium-sized development teams have had success using Agile methods. Here's how enterprises can scale Agile beyond development and across the entire ALM stack. Continue Reading
Feature 04 Jan 2016

Java APIs to bridge the gap between today and future development efforts

At JavaOne 2015, a big topic of conversation was APIs and API development. In the IBM keynote, the promise was that an evolutionary approach to API development will help modern day developers pass the torch to those doing development in the future. Continue Reading
News 08 Dec 2015

Did Android applications save Java? Expert weighs in

Barry Burd, Java expert and author, discusses how Android applications may have brought Java back from the brink. Continue Reading
Tip 24 Nov 2015

How Eclipse plans to harmonize Java DevOps for the cloud

Learn about Eclipse Che, the cloud-based version of the Eclipse IDE. Che will simplify the creation of Java DevOps environments on top of the OpenShift cloud platform. Continue Reading
Tip 05 Nov 2015

How to put configurable security in effect for an IoT gateway

Implementing security for an IoT gateway is challenging. A software developer shares best practices for developing a dynamic and robust security model. Continue Reading
Tip 04 Nov 2015

Learn what the new Java EE security API means for developers

The new Java EE security API is a proposal for baking better security into Java EE, and could ease many security implementation headaches. Continue Reading
Feature 02 Nov 2015

Top 7 Java platform takeaways from JavaOne 2015

What were the big takeaways from JavaOne 2015 with regards to the Java platform? Here we take a look at seven key insights garnered from this year's JavaOne and Oracle Open World conferences. Continue Reading
News 29 Oct 2015

Oracle underwhelms with their Java SE Cloud Service announcement

At JavaOne 2015, Shaun Smith took the stage to discuss the direction that Oracle is taking in terms of developing, deploying and hosting Java applications in the cloud. Continue Reading
News 27 Oct 2015

Oracle takes ALM to the cloud with the Java SE Cloud Service

Optimized for the cloud, at JavaOne2015, Oracle has announced the Java SE Cloud Service and a new set of developer tools that will simplify application lifecycle management by taking ALM to the cloud. Continue Reading
Tip 10 Sep 2015

Limited bandwidth may stifle IoT development

When it comes to IoT development, limited network bandwidth could be the weak link in the chain as latency stifles progress. Continue Reading
Tip 27 Jul 2015

Simplified user and group management is the key to secure application deployment

A big challenge in securing software is the management of users and groups. Less is often more in this regard, and being able to simplify is the ket to secure application deployment. Continue Reading
Feature 07 Jul 2015

How to create secure and bug free software using customer-driven development

When using the Agile method, development is largely customer-driven. How do you ensure the success of such a project? Here are some tips on how to develop secure, bug free software. Continue Reading
Feature 12 May 2015

Cutting costs in the cloud with modern PaaS based solutions

Cloud computing has been an incredibly disruptive technology, but more than SaaS and PaaS, enterprises are cutting costs and realizing new efficiencies by leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS) based solutions. Continue Reading
Feature 27 Apr 2015

Failing to integrate security with DevOps? Do so at your own peril

Security is often considered as an afterthought in the software development lifecycle. But organizations need to keep up with vulnerabilities as they move to more agile DevOps practices. Read on for some best practices in building a security conscious culture. Continue Reading
Tip 22 Apr 2015

High-performance computing with cloud clusters

An expert offers tips for using cloud clusters to roll out high-performance computing applications in the cloud. Continue Reading
Feature 21 Apr 2015

Improve software quality by paying early attention to application security

There are a number of strategies enterprises are taking to keep security on pace with faster development cycles. These include earlier code reviews, leveraging PaaS with built in security, and using cloud services for static and dynamic security analysis. Continue Reading
Feature 03 Apr 2015

Docker and containerization: The uncontainable trend of 2015

Containerization, especially using new and exciting platforms like Docker, is a massive trend in the industry. Find out how to leverage this trend to run applications, host operating systems and gain even more benefits from running in a fully virtualized environment. Continue Reading
Podcast 17 Feb 2015

Discussing Aerospike at DeveloperWeek 2015

Aerospike's developer discusses how the NoSQL database recently moved its IP to open source at DeveloperWeek 2015. Continue Reading
News 13 Nov 2014

Devoxx officially kicks off with Spring, Java EE 8, lambdas and value types

As Devoxx 2014 officially kicks off, Geertjan Wielenga is there to tell us exactly what's hot at this year's conference. As one might expect, the Java EE versus Spring debate never goes away, but this year is about so many more things, from Scala to Docker, than that. Continue Reading
Tutorial 31 Aug 2014

JSF Tutorial: Completing the Ajax based Facelets application

If you're using JSF, you're probably using Facelets, and if you're creating modern web based applications, you'll likely want to use Ajax based request-response cycles. Here we conclude our tutorial on JavaServer Faces, Facelets and Ajax based programming. Continue Reading
Feature 25 Aug 2014

Comparing of the cloud storage Titans: Amazon S3 versus Microsoft Azure

There are many vendors out there fighting for your cloud based storage space, with the two biggest being Microsoft Azure and Amazon's S3 offering. Here we compare the two to help you figure out which cloud storage solution is right for you. Continue Reading
Tutorial 20 Jul 2014

Creating pages based on a JSF template: Using the Facelets ui:define tag

What do you do once you've set up a handsome page template using the Facelets functions that come with JSF 2.x? Well, you start creating new pages, meshing those ui:define tags in with ui:composition and ui:insert. It's easier than it sounds, trust me. Continue Reading
Feature 05 May 2014

Encouraging failure: How Amazon AWS promotes innovation and invention

By creating an environment that makes it easy to test, experiment and even fail without major cost and repercussions, Amazon Web Services (AWS) works to promote innovation and invention. Continue Reading
Tip 21 Jan 2014

There is more to PaaS than just application deployment and management

There is no doubt that various PaaS plays and cloud computing platforms have greatly simplified application management and deployment, but growth and survival has meant growing far beyond these humble beginnings. Continue Reading
Feature 09 Dec 2013

DevTest in the Cloud: Why pre-production in the cloud makes sense

People have a lot of fears about moving infrastructure to the cloud. They worry about security, or losing control over policies and access, or instances not being turned off and costs spiraling out of control — or all of the above. Continue Reading
Tip 06 Mar 2013

Effective Naming Strategies for RESTful Web Services

New descriptive languages like WADL and WSDL 2.0 are making it possible to describe the RESTful contract to client applications. However, if your RESTful web services are not named effectively, the mechanism for describing the interface may run out of steam. Continue Reading
Feature 26 Jan 2012

Has Computer Programming Really Changed Much Since Lovelace's Time?

Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time? Continue Reading
Tutorial 12 Jan 2012

New Java 7 Features: How to Use a More Precise Rethrow in Exceptions from Project Coin

Afficionados of other languages such as Scala or Clojure are always slagging the fact that Java is too verbose and cumbersome. So, it's not too surprising to find out that Java 7 introduced a number of new facilities that can help to trim down the code an application developer is required to write. Continue Reading
Tip 28 Apr 2011

Building Java Web services with NetBeans 7

In this tutorial, I'll walk through building a simple Web service with NetBeans 7. Let's see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support the spec have come. Continue Reading
News 28 Sep 2009

SAML: It's Not just for Web services

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 whether to stay with version 1.1 or move to 2.0. This article makes observations about both options. Continue Reading
News 01 Oct 2007

Sending attachments with SOAP - A simple JAX-WS development example in Java

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 Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) to send and receive these messages. Continue Reading
News 01 Sep 2007

Axis, Axis2 and CXF: Surveying the WS Landscape

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 Axis2, which hit 1.0 at the end of April, 2006 and is currently in the release candidate stage for version 1.3, and Apache CXF, which released version 2.0 (the first version released under that name) in early July 2007. Continue Reading
News 01 Aug 2006

Binding XML to Java

Manipulating XML data easily and efficiently in Java remains an important problem. Numerous approaches to XML binding exist in the industry, including DOM, JAXB, XML Beans, Castor, SDO and so on. In this article we will explore how the Eclipse Modeling Framework, EMF, solves the XML binding problem in a number of interesting ways, and we'll compare that to the alternatives. Continue Reading
News 01 Jul 2006

Introducing Axiom

An XML Object model should be memory efficient and fast in processing XML. These two goals are very difficult to satisfy with the technologies that exist so far. However, with the introduction of StAX (Streaming API for XML), these goals are no longer difficult to implement. The Apache Web services community was also searching for a fast-performing and memory-efficient object model for their next generation Web service engine, Axis2. AXIOM (Apache aXIs Object Model) was the implementation that the Apache WS community came up with, along with StAX, to achieve the above goals. Continue Reading
News 01 Apr 2006

An Approach to Web Services Non-Functional Requirements Using WSDL Annotations

Web Services play a key role in implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly captured in the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) Specification. Continue Reading
News 01 May 2005

A Proposal for SAML communications with JAAS

Have you found as your web application gets more complex, understanding and managing the page flow – the orchestration that drives your application use cases – gets harder and harder? Are you tired of being forced into very particular ways of doing things that don't give you much reuse? Do you feel you're spending too much time developing your own approaches to generic problems like session state management? Continue Reading
News 01 Jan 2002

Part 2 - A Detailed Look at SOAP

In Part One of the hands-on Web services tutorial we introduced the basic concepts behind web services, including SOAP and WSDL. We showed how to develop a simple Web Service in under 30 minutes, and in the process explained SOAP messaging, how to implement a Java Web service client, and how a WSDL is constructed. In this article we'll check out some more advanced topics including SOAP complex type handling, error processing and remote references. Continue Reading
News 01 Dec 2001

Developing my first Web Service in 30 minutes

You've heard the hype, and your head is probably dizzy from all the acronyms. So just what are Web Services, and how can you use them? This series of articles is intended to demystify Web Services and show, step-by-step, how to build, deploy, use, and find them. Continue Reading
News 01 Jun 2001

J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services

In this whitepaper, we will make a powerful comparison between the two choices that businesses have for building XML-based web services: the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)1 , built by Sun Microsystems and other industry players, and Microsoft.NET2, built by Microsoft Corporation. Continue Reading