Web services promote platform neutrality and interoperability, but a language must be chosen for development. This book is a good fit if Java is your choice.

Sun Microsystems delays a much-anticipated Java specification by three months to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable.

Java 8 lambdas & new Streams API simplify common idiomatic constructs. This article investigates some common use cases in financial services and how they are easily solved with these new constructs.

Service virtualization is a technique used to simulate the behavior of dependencies of service during automated testing. This article explores this topic, and includes a tutorial using Hoverfly Java.

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 ...

Oracle’s Java Management Service can shine a light on which versions of Java you’re running, what apps are running on them, and which installs are outdated.