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 ...

Java web services are applications that provide functionality over the network using standard protocols such as HTTP, SOAP, or REST. They are widely used for integrating different systems ...

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.

JAX-RPC 2.0, a planned upgrade to a Java specification for use in Web services and remote procedure calls in Java, is getting a name change to JAX-WS, Sun Microsystems acknowledged on Wednesday.