posted 17 years ago
RPC is but one application of web services. While initially WS focused mostly on RPC, they have shifted towards more document-centric approaches since then. So it makes sense that the APIs are becoming more generalized, and their names reflect that. (JAX-WS was initially named JAX-RPC 2.0, by the way.) But it is still perfectly possible to build RPC-style WS.
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