Web services are here. It's time to extend your J2EE applications. Apache Axis allows you to Web-service enable existing J2EE applications without touching your back-end business logic.
by Raghu Donepudi
April 5, 2004
any view Web services as the backbone to a new generation of cross-platform, cross-language distributed computing applications. In fact, Sun defines Web services as "a well-defined, modular, encapsulated function used for loosely coupled integration between applications or systems components."
This industry buzz explains why many businesses want to extend their existing J2EE applications to Web services applications, which would allow them to leverage the functionality of J2EE while reaping the benefits of Web services. To that end, Apache's latest SOAP engine, Apache eXtensible Interaction System (Axis), not only enables developers to build new Web service applications from scratch but also provides the infrastructure to publish existing Java classes as Web services.
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any view Web services as the backbone to a new generation of cross-platform, cross-language distributed computing applications. In fact, Sun defines Web services as "a well-defined, modular, encapsulated function used for loosely coupled integration between applications or systems components."
