Summary

In this chapter we've seen how to write a Jtrix service and discussed in some detail about what else Jtrix services might do.

At the time of writing (January 2002) there is a lot of hype about ``Web Services'', which tends to mean remote procedure calls via SOAP. We've seen there's much more to providing Web-based services than SOAP remote procedure calls, and Jtrix provides complete flexibility all round, allowing most if not all related technologies as needed.

In the next few chapters we'll look some more interesting cases of what nodes and netlets can do. Meanwhile you can read more about Beatrix in Programming with Jtrix: The Beatrix application framework at http://www.jtrix.org/download/5/misc/jtrix-beatrix-programming.pdf.