Web Services is one of those concepts made all the more difficult to understand because of the myriad acronyms and abbreviations that are superfluous in any discussion. Covering all the concepts and standards associated with Web Services is a vast topic in itself. There are a large number of standards around Web Services. These standards define the norms of a Web Services implementation and ensure that a Web Services is accessed independently of the client platform. There are numerous frameworks available to select to build web service today. Below is the most widely used ones. Product Does it fit my need? Axis2.0 Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack to build on the lessons learnt from Apache Axis. An advantage of Axis 2 is its support for the binding frameworks XMLBeans. Axis 2 with XMLBeans is widely ...