Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

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 ...

A resource-oriented approach to Web services Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for creating, maintaining, retrieving, and deleting resources. REST’s information-driven, ...

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style for developing web services and systems that can easily communicate with each other. REST is popular due to its simplicity and the fact ...