web services

Performance of SOAP/HTTP vs. SOAP/JMS

Today SOA is the most prevalent enterprise architecture style. In most cases services (S in SOA) are realized using web services specification(s). Web services...

4 replies - 9279 views - 11/05/08 by mresetar in Articles

Enunciate Your Web Service API

Enunciate is an engine for building a rich Web service API, released open-source under the Apache 2 license. The concept is pretty simple: write your service...

0 replies - 3267 views - 11/01/08 by stoicflame in News

Putting Java to REST

Last month I gave you an Introduction to REST. It was 100% theory, so now its time to see a little bit of REST in action. Since I am primarily a Java...

7 replies - 32904 views - 09/22/08 by Bill Burke in Articles

RESTful Development

Web-based systems have to perform increasingly complex functionality, a lot of which is client-side, but a hefty portion of it requires complex server-side...

3 replies - 4990 views - 09/11/08 by Solomon in Articles

A Template Application for Running Axis2 in OSGi Environments

There is ongoing work in the Axis2 project to make Axis2 engine not only compatible with OSGi but also take all the advantages that OSGi infrastructure...

10 replies - 3396 views - 09/10/08 by vladrin in Articles

EJB 3.0 and Spring 2.5

Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye?

29 replies - 13360 views - 08/27/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Introduction to REST

The bulk of my career has been spent working with and implementing distributed middleware. In the mid-90's I worked for the parent company of Open Environment...

3 replies - 19988 views - 08/18/08 by Bill Burke in Articles

OFX4J: Java Web Service APIs for Interfacing with Financial Institutions

OFX4J has been released!OFX4J is a Java implementation of Open Financial Exchange, which defines web service APIs for interfacing with financial institutions....

1 replies - 1773 views - 07/22/08 by stoicflame in Announcements

Web Services with Mule, CXF, and Spring

Since it seems like everything is going the way of SOA and Web Services these days, it's always nice to have some practical examples of how to quickly get a...

3 replies - 22026 views - 07/04/08 by Steve Daskam in Articles

Getting Started with "Software as a Service"

"Software as a Service" (SaaS) is an increasingly popular model for providing software functionality, as it is economical in terms of both cost...

0 replies - 10693 views - 06/10/08 by Jeff Rubinoff in News

A First Look at JMX Web Services Connector

JSR 262 ("Web Services Connector for Java Management Extensions (JMX) Agents") holds much promise as an alternative to the standard remote JMX...

0 replies - 4479 views - 06/02/08 by java_dm in Articles

KonaKart v2.2.6.0 Free Java Shopping Cart

DS Data Systems UK Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of KonaKart v2.2.6.0, a free java based shopping cart application with easy to use java APIs and a...

1 replies - 2746 views - 05/29/08 by Paolo Sidoli in Announcements

Spring Framework Support in REST 0.7

REST 0.7 (i.e., Jersey, the reference implementation for RESTful web services) is out and now includes support for the Spring framework. Here is a step-by-step...

1 replies - 16028 views - 05/20/08 by Jeff Rubinoff in News

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 3

In the first two parts(part 1 and part 2) of this series we have seen how to use SoapUI to write functional tests for web services and also how to use Groovy...

12 replies - 19268 views - 05/19/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 2

Part 1 of this series helped provide the background needed to begin exploring web services testing. We learned the basics of SoapUI and how easy it was to...

14 replies - 34213 views - 05/12/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles