Java Web Services Interview Question:

Explain each web service technologies - SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, eBXML and JAX pack?

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A Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) enables the heterogeneous operating system to communicate with one another by using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language used to describe the services business offers, which can be accessed electronically.

Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a specification for maintaining standardized directories of information about Web services in a universally recognized format. It records their capabilities, location and requirements.

The ebXML Messaging Service specification (ebMS) extends the SOAP specification. It provides the security and reliability features.
It is supported by a variety of commercial and open source software implementations.
Due to the interoperability of its implementations, ebMS is a strong complement or even alternative to other web service specifications.

The Java APIs for XML (JAX) Pack integrates all of Sun's programming interfaces for web services development and makes them available as a single download.
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