Sometimes customization of the 500 and 400 error pages might be desired. To do this, configuring the web.xml file to send these errors to the customized page(s) would help achieve the task.
Web services are client and server applications that communicate over the World Wide Web's (WWW) HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) .
It is good practice to keep a web service endpoint secure. This article is going to show you how to secure a web service endpoint with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).