Before you begin
This topic discusses how to plan your use of Web services that are developed and implemented based on the Web Services for Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. Read the Web services scenario: Overview which tells the story of a fictional online garden supply retailer named Plants by WebSphere and how they incorporated the Web services concept.Why and when to perform this task
To plan to use Web services based on Web Services for J2EE:
Steps for this task
Design your Web services for reliability, availability, manageability and security. For example, you want your Web services to process a transaction in a reasonable time at all hours of the day and provide users with good security characteristics, such as authentication for buyers. Planning to use Web services to work with WebSphere Application Server helps to meet these requirements.
To support Web services, extend WebSphere Application Server to support Web services standards. For interoperable Web services running on platforms supplied by multiple vendors, standards are essential. WebSphere Application Server uses Web services standards developed for the Java language under the Java Community Process (JCP). These standards include the Web Services for J2EE and JAX-RPC specifications.
See Developing Web services based on Web Services for J2EE for information about developing Web services based on the Java language through WebSphere Application Server. To read more about the WebSphere Studio Application Developer see the WebSphere Studio Application Developer information center.
What to do next
Develop a Web service.