Archive for February, 2006

REST Support in JAX-WS

Monday, February 27th, 2006
I was intrigued by the REST support in JAX-WS. REST style could be very useful in certain situations, not to mention the fact that there are already many REST-style services out there. While I don’t want to get into SOAP vs. REST debate here I still want to quickly mention one very important REST advantage, […]

JAX-WS and Annotations: Looking Good

Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Lately I’ve been playing with JAX-WS reference implementation (version EA3). JAX-WS is the next version of JAX-RPC (i.e., JAX-WS is renamed JAX-RPC 2.0) and it comes with many interesting features, including annotations, HTTP binding, MTOM, asynchronous client operation, direct access to XML stream (finally!) and others. In this entry I will focus on annotations. Annotations […]