In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Stevens writes:
>Can someone explain to me what the heck "web services" are so that I can
>decide whether or not this is even worthwhile to learn about?

Right now it's mostly vapor, at least on the Sun ONE end of things.
Too many of the Java APIs related to Web services are still making their
way through the JCP (JAXB, JAXM, JAXR, JAX-RPC, Java APIs for WSDL)
and several of the XML standards are still in flux (SOAP is now part of
the W3C XML Protocol Activity and WSDL is only a W3C Note).  Furthermore,
every whitepaper seems to define web services slightly differently.
Apparently though, if you pump in XML to a server via HTTP and get XML
back, it's a Web service.

daniel






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