JAXB Binder and XPath

I came across javax.xml.bind.Binder when I was reading SOA Using Java Web Services (excellent book). I had never used this class before so I set out to find how the class could be used. I found that the class hadn’t been mentioned as much as the classes like Marshaller or UnMarshaller but it was very [...]

I don’t know what exactly web services are

Back in my days at university, if anybody asked me or my friends “what is the difference between web application and web services” then the answers would be exactly the same; “web application is human-to-machine interaction but web services are machine-to-machine interaction”. I don’t recall how I and my friends got to remember the answers [...]

Deadlock in Real World

Last year, I was assigned to handle some defects that would occur only when the system was being in high load. Those defects were apparently the result of some concurrent problems both in third party API and my own module. The characteristic of the problems is quite interesting because it features a couple well known [...]

Java Web Services Deployment Model

The product I am developing is going to come out in early access package pretty soon. My QA and Support team are still not quite get it why the web services in our product needs additional steps to add some descriptor files when it going to be deployed on Sun Java System Web Server. I [...]