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Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE's support for them. Future posts will use this support to build SOAP-based and RESTful-based Web services, and will also cover advanced Web service topics.

Java XML and JSON

In this series, I assume that you understand XML and JSON. If not, you might want to check out my Java XML and JSON book, which is advertised at the end of this post.

What are web services?

Wikipedia defines Web service as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network." A more detailed definition can be obtained by first defining this term's parts:

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