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 ...

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. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Spring Boot is Java’s premiere framework for the development of RESTful web services. Swagger is ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

Mobile developer William J. Francis demonstrates how easy it is to consume a RESTful service from your Android device. RESTful services are well suited for providing content to small footprint devices ...