Tutorial on Securing Web-Service Communications

New on Sun Developer Network is a tutorial on securing communications in Web services. As a demo, the tutorial hosts a sample application that quotes stock prices. The software involved is Sun Java System Access Manager, the NetBeans IDE 5.5, and the Java Application Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) with Tools bundle.

Can we ever overemphasize the importance of privacy protection in software? The efforts devoted to this area are, no-brainer-like, well spent and critical.