JAX-WS
Encyclopedia
The Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) is a Java programming language
API
for creating web service
s. It is part of the Java EE platform
from Sun Microsystems
. Like the other Java EE APIs, JAX-WS uses annotation
s, introduced in Java SE 5
, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints. It is part of the Java Web Services Development Pack
.
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
distributionhttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2007/06/introducing_met.html.
JAX-WS also is one of the foundations of WSIT
.
API in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
5. The name change reflected the move away from RPC-style
and toward document-style web services.
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
for creating web service
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
s. It is part of the Java EE platform
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier...
from Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
. Like the other Java EE APIs, JAX-WS uses annotation
Java annotation
An annotation, in the Java computer programming language, is a special form of syntactic metadata that can be added to Java source code. Classes, methods, variables, parameters and packages may be annotated...
s, introduced in Java SE 5
Java Platform, Standard Edition
Java Platform, Standard Edition or Java SE is a widely used platform for programming in the Java language. It is the Java Platform used to deploy portable applications for general use...
, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints. It is part of the Java Web Services Development Pack
Java Web Services Development Pack
The Java Web Services Development Pack is a free software development kit for developing Web Services, Web applications and Java applications with the newest technologies for Java....
.
The Reference Implementation of JAX-WS is developed as an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
project and is part of project GlassFish
GlassFish
GlassFish is an open source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by Oracle Corporation. The supported version is called Oracle GlassFish Server...
, 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
GlassFish Metro
Metro is an opensource web service stack that is a part of the GlassFish project, though it can also be used in a stand-alone configuration. Components of metro include JAXB RI, JAX-WS RI, SAAJ RI, StAX and WSIT...
distributionhttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2007/06/introducing_met.html.
JAX-WS also is one of the foundations of WSIT
Web Services Interoperability Technology
Web Services Interoperability Technology is an open-source project started by Sun Microsystems to develop the next-generation of Web service technologies...
.
Name change
JAX-WS 2.0 replaced the JAX-RPCJAX-RPC
Java API for XML-based RPC allows a Java application to invoke a Java-based Web Service with a known description while still being consistent with its WSDL description. It can be seen as Java RMIs over Web services. JAX-RPC 2.0 was renamed JAX-WS 2.0 . JAX-RPC 1 is deprecated with Java EE 6...
API in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier...
5. The name change reflected the move away from RPC-style
Remote procedure call
In computer science, a remote procedure call is an inter-process communication that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction...
and toward document-style web services.
External links
- java.net project pages
- Documentation
- Sun's JAX-WS info