Java SE provides several APIs that support Web services. Along with various JAXP APIs (SAX, DOM, StAX, and so on) that I discuss in Java XML and JSON, Java SE provides the JAX-WS, JAXB, and SAAJ APIs: ...

"We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I," said Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun.

And Sun's Java-Web services union in gadgets has support from development-tool sellers Borland and Metrowerks, as well as from Motorola, Research in Motion, Oracle, Siemens and Symbian.

Most Java companies--such as IBM, Oracle, SilverStream, and now Sun--have been releasing their own Web services toolkits that offer differing guidelines to build Web services using Java.

Microsoft provides the .Net framework. And Java shops, of course, can implement Web services on the same platform they’re using to run their current Web applications, the J2EE application server.

Uday Tatiraju describes the service loading mechanism in Java and the changes made to it in order to support the native Java module system. He also discusses an experimental library called Susel.

Amazon Web Services has long offered an SDK to make it easier to access its web services from Java. Now it has another lure for Java programmers: James Gosling, the father of Java.

Toward that end, Redmond recently announced preview support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP in Azure Service Bus premium tier. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...