Thiloshon Nagarajah

The blog is migrated to https://thiloshon.wordpress.com     Web Services are the most important elements of service oriented communication over the Internet. Knowing the underlying concepts of web services and how it has evolved over the time is very much expected from programmers. We might know pure Java or any other languages top to bottom but if we don’t know how its implemented in an industry or enterprise scenario there is not much use in what we learned. In the previous blog I covered many concepts and theories behind web services. In this blog let’s build a simple calculator web service in Java using GlassFish as application server and SOAP as the protocol. Let’s dive in. Building a web service I am using Netbeans in this blog since its very convenient to configure GlassFish server. IntelliJ IDEA can be used too but integrating server is a bit tedious. In the Netbeans create a new project. Select ‘Java Web’ as Category and ‘Web Application’ as Proje...

The blog is migrated to  https://thiloshon.wordpress.com          Web Services are the most important elements of service oriented communication over the Internet.  Knowing the underlying concepts of web services and how it has evolved over the time is very much expected from programmers. We might know pure Java or any other languages top to bottom but if we don’t know how it's implemented in an industry or enterprise scenario there is not much use in what we learned. In this blog I cover many concepts and theories behind web services. In the subsequent blog  I'll cover how to build one in Java using GlassFish as application server and SOAP as the protocol. Let’s dive in. What is a web service? Let’s start with a simple scenario. You go to HSBC in Kollupitiya and deposit 50 000 to your account. And then you go to HSBC in Wellawatta and try to get that 50 000 back. Can you get your money back? Of course you can. But you deposited...