Implementing web services with JAX-WS

This recipe will explore the implementation of web services with JAX-WS. For web service construction, we will use the top-down approach.

Getting ready

In the recipe Implementing web services with Axis2, we started web service implementation with the POJO class. The approach is called the bottom-up design. We will start the development of web services in JAX-WS from the WSDL definition; that is, we will use the top-down approach.

Initially, we create a new Java project in Eclipse. In the wizard, we change the output directory from bin to classes. When the project is created, we amend it with the following actions:

  1. Create the wsdl directory. We put it in the WSDL file that is our starting point of creating a web ...

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