Some people get scared when they hear SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and they assume that it’s a very complex thing and they don’t want to get into it. Actually, SOA is a very easy to understand but it’s a little bit harder to implement. We’re going to take a look at SOA and its related stuff. This topic has been divided into four main parts. First, the...

Securing JAX-RS web services is an easy thing specially when choosing the “Basic Authentication” option. Basic authentication is the simplest way to secure your REST web service. It involve sending a Base64-encoded username and password within a request header to the server. The server then checks to see if the username exists within its system and...