UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) is fast becoming a
standard for storing business processes available on the Web. Although UDDI
is capable of storing many different types of data, for the purposes of this
article I'll focus on how UDDI can be used to register Web services, thereby
making them available for application-level consumption.
What Is Covered?
This article provides Java developers with a fast and simple way to develop
their own UDDI Java applications to consume Web services registered within a
UDDI Registry. The sample code (the source code is online at
www.sys-con.com/webservices/sourcec.cfm) contains a payroll Web service
(deployed from an entity bean) and a UDDI session bean.
Background
This article is based heavily on the tutorial Dis... (more)
Today, more than ever, enterprises are faced with the necessity of migrating
applications from one platform to another. Here, we try to take some of the
pain out of migrating a database application written in Java to ADO.NET.
In this article we compare the various database API calls in JDBC (Java
DataBase Connectivity) and ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects) side by side to
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