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titleJAX-WS Web Services

If you are new to Web Services, it is strongly recommended that you use JAX-WS 2.0 instead of JAX-RPC. JAX-WS 2.0 comes with many new features not supported by JAX-RPC.

Theoretically JAX-RPC maps to J2EE 1.4 whereas JAX-WS maps to JavaEEJava EE 5. So JAX-WS leverages the full potential of annotations and other new features which simplifies the application development a lot.

To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.

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titleMigrating from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS

If you are looking for how to migrate from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS, refer the following tutorial Migrating from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS.

The above tutorial does not go into details on why these changes are required and the concepts behind it, it is rather a quick note that helps you to deal with migrating your application from the older web service stack to new stack.

To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.

  • Sun JDK 5.0Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5)
  • Eclipse 3.3.1.1 (Eclipse Classic package of Europa distribution), which is platform specific
  • Web Tools Platform (WTP) 2.0.1
  • Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.5.1
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.3.1
  • Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.3.1

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titleMigrating from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS

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Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial will take you through the following steps:

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This completes the development of JAX-RPC Web Services. After completing this tutorial you should have a understanding about how JAX-RPC Web Services are deployed.

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titleJAX-RPC Web Services

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