Build a SOAP-based Chat Application with Java Web Services
This introduction to Web services eschews the canonical "stockQuote" service in favor of a more complex and more informative SOAP-based chat application. Learn how to develop a fully-functional application using the Eclipse IDE and free Web services software from Systinet.
by Petr Dvorak
August 13, 2003
here are many definitions of what Web services are or should be, each more or less understandable. It's interesting how sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to describe. With that in mind, here's yet another take: a Web service is an entity that can exchange documents with the outer world. This entity is self descriptive and possesses a unique identity.
The document content is XML; strictly speaking SOAP. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) defines the internal structure of the XML documents that Web services consume and produce. Web services speak SOAP. SOAP is recognized as an industry standard and is widely adopted across many boundaries—across software vendors, hardware platforms, operating systems or programming languages.
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here are many definitions of what Web services are or should be, each more or less understandable. It's interesting how sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to describe. With that in mind, here's yet another take: a Web service is an entity that can exchange documents with the outer world. This entity is self descriptive and possesses a unique identity.
