About Web Services
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Web services are distributed application components that conform to standards
that make them externally available. They solve the problem of integrating diverse
computer applications that have been developed independently and run on a variety
of software and hardware platforms.
The promise of web services architecture is to allow you to
connect applications that were developed on different platforms and
in different programming languages. This can only work if vendors can
agree on common standards.
The following web service programming models are supported
by the IDE:
- SOAP Web Services (JAX-WS). SOAP is an XML protocol that can
be used for messages to and from a web service. Java API
for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) is the specification for SOAP web
services that is supported by NetBeans IDE. For more details, see About
SOAP Web Services.
- REpresentational State Transfer (REST).
Central to REST is the concept of resources identified by universal
resource identifiers (URIs). These resources can be manipulated using
a standard interface, such as HTTP, and information is exchanged
using representations of these resources. For more
details, see About RESTful Web Services.
- See Also
- Working with Web Services
- Web Service Tasks: Quick Reference
- About SOAP Web Service Clients
- About RESTful Web Service Clients
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