You can develop client bindings from a Web Services Description (WSDL) file for a JAX-RPC Web services client.
Support for Universal Transformation Format (UTF)-16 encoding is required by the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. WebSphere® Application Server conforms to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. UTF-16 is a kind of unicode encoding scheme using 16-bit values to store Universal Character Set (UCS) characters. UTF-8 is the most common encoding that is used on the Internet and UTF-16 encoding is typically used for Java and Windows® product applications. You can change the encoding in a SOAP message from UTF-8 to UTF-16.
You can configure JAX-RPC Web services client deployment descriptor with an assembly tool.
You can configure the JAX-RPC client deployment descriptor for user-provided handler classes.
You can configure the ibm-webservicesclient-bnd.xmi deployment descriptor file with assembly tools.
WebSphere Application Server provides extensions to Web services clients using the Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) programming model.