Sun’s JAX Pack includes APIs geared for both approaches: JAX-RPC (Java API for XML-based RPC) for RPC-style Web services, and JAXM for document-style services. Developers facing these choices ...

The JAX-RPC name, which stands for Java API for XML-based RPC, is misleading because developers assume it is only about RPC, according to Doug Kohlert, a Sun staff engineer, in his blog this week.

"It makes XML a natural extension of Java," she said. The new XML technology helps Sun position Java as the preferred programming language in its vision of Web-based ... the Java API for XML ...