Configuring Web Services
Michael Wessler, Erin Mulder, Rob Harrop, Jan Macháček · Apress eBooks · 2004
In Chapter 11, we talked about application clients that call EJBs directly over RMI. Though these are great behind the firewall, they’re not as useful when you need to support hundreds of custom clients or integrate with remote partners running non-Java systems. Fortunately, the software industry has defined standard web services protocols that let you expose your applications to the world through XML messages passed over HTTP. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.