From the course: Java EE 8: Web Services
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Know the difference: SOAP vs. RESTful - Java EE Tutorial
From the course: Java EE 8: Web Services
Know the difference: SOAP vs. RESTful
- [Narrator] This video is a story of the technologies that enable JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These are the silent heroes that facilitate web service technology in the Java EE ecosystem. First we have Servlets. If you've hung around the Java EE ecosystem for any length of time, you've probably heard of, or even worked with, Servlets. If you aren't familiar with them, Servlets were the primary way of building web applications in Java EE for a long time. They've taken a bit of a backseat lately as the front line of enterprise development with the Java EE stack. But Servlet technology underpins more than a few other technologies. JAX-WS and JAX-RS use Servlets under the hood to expose web services to clients. When you think about it, it's quite exciting, because that means, in a pinch, we could get a hold of the basic HTTP Servlet request and response objects, maybe throw in some Servlet filters for extra customization, and…
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