The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a

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for creating web services, particularly

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services. JAX-WS is one of the

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programming APIs.

Overview

The JAX-WS 2.2 specificatio
JSR 224
defines a standard Java- to-WSDL mapping which determines how

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. JAX-WS can be used in

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starting with version 6. JAX-WS 2.0 replaced the

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API in

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5 which leans more towards document style Web Services. This API provides the core of

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. JAX-WS also is one of the foundations of WSIT.

Standards Supported

* JAX-WS 2.0/2.1/2.2 (JSR 224) * WS-I Basic Profile 1.2 and 2.0 * WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0 * WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 * WS-Addressing 1.0 - Core, SOAP Binding, WSDL Binding

Main JWS Packages

XML Web Services related Specs

Implementations

in Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) *

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*JBossWS in

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* IBM WebSphere Jax-Ws in

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Overview

Standards Supported

Main JWS Packages

XML Web Services related Specs

Implementations

References

External links