Individual chapters focus on the various Web service technologies (with a Java spin): SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. According to the book, these technologies are the foundations of a Web service.

Enterprises concerned with Web services security will want to examine the package’s JSSE (Java Secure Socket Extension) API, which supports data encryption, authentication on the server side ...

This article first introduces Java SE’s SAAJ API for working with SOAP-based Web services at a lower level. It then discusses how to create a JAX-WS handler to log the flow of SOAP messages.

If Java is your choice, this book attempts to provide every relevant bit of information. Individual chapters focus on the various Web service technologies (with a Java spin): SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.