"We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I," said Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun.

If Java is your choice, this book attempts to provide every relevant bit of information. Individual chapters focus on the various Web service technologies (with a Java spin): SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.

Enterprises concerned with Web services security will want to examine the package’s JSSE (Java Secure Socket Extension) API, which supports data encryption, authentication on the server side ...

"We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I," said Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun.

JAX-RPC 2.0, a planned upgrade to a Java specification for use in Web services and remote procedure calls in Java, is getting a name change to JAX-WS, Sun Microsystems acknowledged on Wednesday.