Developing Web services applications
In this chapter, we introduce the concept of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and explain how such an architecture can be realized using the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web services implementation.
We explore the features provided by RAD for Web services development and look at two Web services development approaches: top-down and bottom-up. We also demonstrate how Application Developer can help with testing Web services and developing Web services client applications.
The chapter is organized into the following sections:
The sample code for this chapter is in 7672code\webservice.
