About Implementing Web Services

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Before you begin creating a web service, you need to make some implementation decisions. These decisions revolve around choosing the specification to which your web service is going to comply, the artifact type that will implement it, and whether or not you have a WSDL file on which to base your web service. The questions you need to ask are listed below, together with links to information that can help you in coming up with answers:

Should the web service comply with the Java EE 5 specification or with the J2EE 1.4 specification?

Which of the IDE's project types should I use to implement the web service?

Will the web service be created from Java or from a WSDL file?

Will the web service, its client, or both be deployed to the Sun Java System Application Server, to the Tomcat Web Server, or to another server?

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About Web Services
Creating a Web Service from Java
Creating a Web Service from a WSDL File
Creating a WSDL File

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