Today's IT organizations have tens of applications and services that perform some well-defined tasks such as inventory, billing, expense reporting, and order entry. With the evolution of Internet and e-business, enterprises have started to think about how different applications in a di...

RPC-style Web services aim to expose a business object as a Web service interface described by WSDL (Web Services Description Language). On the other hand, document-based Web services are based on the exchange of XML documents between two parties. The Web service receiving the document...

This article takes a look at SOAP Message handlers and how JAX-RPC supports SOAP Message handlers and its usage scenarios. First, some of the terminology: a SOAP Interceptor takes raw SOAP message as input and, before processing the message, modifies the SOAP message or adds some addit...

The notion of distributed computing has been evolving for a long time, during which we have been building business solutions by integrating various systems and platforms. Typically, these interactions are characterized by accessing and invoking clearly defined interfaces using well-kno...