This post launches a four-part series introducing you to Java SE 6's support for Web services. Later in the series we'll build SOAP-based and RESTful-based Web services and explore advanced Web ...

Learn how to create RESTful-based Web services Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...