Dietel et al. Book excerpt

(Excerpt from Java Web Services for Experienced Programers, by Deitel, Deitel, Gadzik, Lomeli, Santry & Zhang (Deitel Developer Series, August 2002) Welcome to the world of Web services! Over the past several decades, computing has evolved at an unprecedented pace. This progress affects organizations in significant ways, forcing information-technology (IT) managers and developers to adjust rapidly to new computing paradigms. Innovations in programming and hardware have led to more powerful and useful technologies, including object-oriented programming, distributed computing, Internet protocols and Extensible Markup Language (XML). Organizations have learned to leverage the power of their networks and the Internet to gain competitive advantage. Web-services technology - which represents the next stage in distributed computing - will profoundly affect organizations in... (more)