Java API for XML Web Services
The Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) is a Java programming language API for creating web services. It is part of the Java EE platform from Sun Microsystems. Like the other Java EE APIs, JAX-WS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints.
The Reference Implementation of JAX-WS is developed as an open source project and is part of project GlassFish, an open source Java EE application server. It is called JAX-WS RI (For Reference Implementation) and is said to be production quality implementation (contrary to the former Reference Implementation being a proof of concept). This Reference Implementation is now part of the Metro distribution[1].
JAX-WS also is one of the foundations of WSIT.
Name change
JAX-WS 2.0 replaced the JAX-RPC API in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5. The name change reflected the move away from RPC-style and toward document-style web services.
External sites
- java.net project pages
- Documentation
- Sun's JAX-WS info
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