Abstract
This chapter focuses on Java and Web services. Java is a platform-independent, highly object-oriented, third-generation programming language and software development methodology developed by Sun Microsystems. Although its origins predate the advent of the Web, Java was introduced to the world in 1995 as a strategic technology for realizing dynamic, interactive Web applications. However, object orientation is another big and important feature that Java and Web services have in common. Just as object-based modularity is a defining attribute of Web services, Java is innately object oriented. Another major attribute that Java and Web services are said to have in common is platform independence. There is, however, a beguiling but key difference with regard to the connotation of “platform independence” in relation to these two methodologies. Ironically, it is this discrepancy in meaning that makes Java so important and enticing when it comes to Web services.
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