3.9. Conclusion

This chapter began with a description of Web service fundamentals. It described the underlying flow of a typical Web service on the Java platform, showing how the various components making up clients and services pass requests and responses among themselves. The chapter also described some example scenarios, which it used to illustrate various concepts. Once the groundwork was set, the chapter discussed the key design decisions that a Web service developer needs to make, principally the design of a service as an interaction and a processing layer. It traced how to go about making design decisions and recommending good design choices for specific scenarios.

The next chapter focuses on developing Web service clients.