Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Sun Microsystems has launched new software tools to bolster its Web services strategy. Sun executives said Friday that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies.

Now that Web services have firmly established themselves in the enterprise, developers face mounting pressure to keep up with the latest development and deployment technologies — sometimes even before ...

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"Microsoft actually supports what people are calling 'Web services' - SOAP, xML, etc. - better than Java," says Randy Starr, Countermind's director of mobile and wireless solutions practice.

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 ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

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