Web Services Tools

Use different tools is used to generate JAX-WS artifacts, depending on whether the starting point of Web Services development is a Java source file, a Java class file, or a WSDL file.

• apt— The Annotation Processing Tool (APT) tool is part of Java SE 5. It programmatically processes the annotations and generates the JAX-WS portable artifacts from an annotated Java source file.

• wsgen- The wsgen tool reads a service endpoint implementation class and generates all of the portable artifacts for a JAX-WS web service.

• wsimport- The wsimport tool reads a WSDL and generates all the required artifacts for web service development, deployment, and invocation.

After using the tools, the web.xml, sun-jaxws.xml, the implementation class, and the portable JAX-WS artifacts must be bundled into a WAR that can be deployed onto a container.

The following procedures describes how to use these methods.