Jakarta Web Services Metadata (JWS; formerly Web Services Metadata for Java platform and Java Web Services), as a part of

Jakarta XML Web Services The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API for creating web services, particularly SOAP services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs. Overview The JAX-WS 2.2 specificatioJSR ...

(JAX-WS), is a Java programming language specification (JSR-181) primarily used to standardize the development of web service interfaces for the

Jakarta EE Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web se ...

platform. Using annotations from the JSR 181, you can annotate a Web service implementation class or a Web service interface. It enables developers to create portable Java Web Services from a simple plain old Java object (POJO) class by adding annotations, and also helps in generating a Web service with a wizard or by publishing the service on to a server. Some of the annotations specified by this JSR are: * @WebService * @WebMethod * @Oneway * @WebParam * @WebResult * @HandlerChain * @SOAPBinding Put simply
JSR 181
is a specification to define standard and portable web services. It offers the following benefits: * Provide a simplified model for developing web services * Abstract the implementation details * Achieve robustness, easy maintenance, and high interoperability Version is 2.1 was released on December 15, 2009.

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