Web Services with Apache CXF

submited by krishnas on Sat Oct 16th, 2010

The original intention of web services was to provide a mechanism to integrate different systems together. The systems could be running on different operating systems that are hosting applications written in different programming languages. The basic technology underlying web services is XML, which is can be transported between systems using a variety of protocols, most commonly HTTP or HTTPS. XML makes for a power conversational language, not only because it is human readable, but because everything is represented as a String, with specific rules defined for how that String value should be interpreted. This is important because “250” will be interpreted as 250 regardless of whether your application is written in Java or C/C++ or if it is running on Windows or Unix. There is no ambiguity with things like “big endian” or “little endian” interpretations of bytes.

Topic: java j2me