Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Sun ONE and Web Services

Sun ONE: Sun's J2EE implementationSun has been quick to respond to Microsoft's embrace of XML and Web services (although it can be argued that Sun's initial cautious attitude toward XML is attributable to its solid positioning on the code side of the code-data divide discussed in Chapter 1).

Sun's answer to Microsoft's .NET is Sun ONE, the Sun Open Net Environment, a framework for creating and deploying Web services from Sun's J2EE framework. Sun ONE is intended to be a template for interoperability between various devices and networks, bridging the gap between the loosely coupled Web and more tightly coupled object frameworks.

To bring things together it relies on XML, SOAP, and Java to add Web services extensions from within J2EE. For developers, this means that from a Sun perspective Web services will be built using servlets, Java Server Pages, and EJB technology.


The integration of Web services with more conventional middleware offerings is based on Sun's iPlanet integration platform that incorporates Java, SOAP, and XML and supports message queuing for asynchronous message routing between disparate applications.

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