The second part of our coverage of design patterns for web services arising from real-life implementation scenarios.

These design patterns for web services arose from real-life implementation scenarios, using web services in banking applications.

There are many approaches to processing SOAP data, some more complex than others. One lightweight way is by using XPath to extract the items of interest. This article demonstrates a Java web service and client based around the Jaxen XPath API.

ZeroConf technology, also known as Rendezvous, is a winning combination with web services, says Max Bigatti. He demonstrates an example file sharing application that uses Java, SOAP and Rendezvous.