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Web connectors

Web connectors and listeners manage the passing of requests from the Web server to the Sun ONE Application Server. Listeners distribute and handle requests from the Web connectors. New listeners can be added with the HTTP handler.

Web server

The easy-to-use, extensible, easy-to-administer, secure, platform-independent solution to speed up and simplify the deployment and management of your Internet and intranet Web sites. It provides immediate productivity for full-featured, Java™ technology-based server applications.

Web service

A fine-grained, component-style service

- Advertised and described in a service registry

- Based on standardized protocols JAXR, UDDI, JAXRPC, JAXM, SOAP, WSDL, and so on

- Accessible programmatically by applications or other Web services

WSDL

(Web Services Description Language) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. See http://www.w3.org/TR/.