Date: Jun. 23, 2001
Link: http://java.sun.com/xml/webservices.pdf
Source Author or Organization: Sun Microsystems

This Sun Technical White Paper (in PDF format) that presents an overview of the company's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for XML.

The XML APIs come in two categories: procedure-related APIs, and document-related APIs. The procedure-related APIs described include: Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) and Java API for XML-based Remote Prodedure Calls (JAX-RPC). The document-related API's are: Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB).

The paper focuses on demonstrating the ways these APIs simplify XML processing within Web services written in Java.