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Introduction to Web Services
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30 Introduction to Web Services
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This part of the tutorial discusses Java EE 8 web services technologies.
These technologies include Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).

The following topics are addressed here:

* link:webservices-intro001.html#GIJVH[What Are Web Services?]
* link:webservices-intro002.html#GIQSX[Types of Web Services]
* link:webservices-intro003.html#GJBJI[Deciding Which Type of Web Service
to Use]
