This article shows how one can quickly develop an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) application which involves Web Services and processing business elements with Netbeans. To see this happen, let us take a simple example of an order (of products or services) processing application. The business of order processing would involve a couple of elements like – order number and order status. Order number is the basic input of an order processing application. At the very first step, it must be verified that the order number given by the customer to the application, is valid. Sounds easy to do, right?
Step into the world of SOA. Here your application is providing services in a B2B or B2C scenario. The order number will come from any type of application written in any language (Java, C#, VB) and deployed on any platform (Web, desktop, mobile). As one would know, this issue of language and platform is popularity solved by Web services.
