The application server provides command-line tools to develop Web services clients and implementations that are based on the Web Services for Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. You must set up your development environment before you start developing Web services.
Use JAX-WS tools to generate the Java artifacts that are needed to develop JAX-WS Web services when starting with a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.
With Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS), you can send binary attachments such as images or files along with Web services requests. JAX-WS adds support for optimized transmission of binary data as specified by the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) specification.
Deployment descriptors are standard text files, formatted using XML and packaged in a Web services application. You can optionally use the webservices.xml deployment descriptor to augment or override application metadata specified in annotations within Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) Web services.
After you have developed the Java artifacts necessary to develop a Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) Web service, you must complete the JavaBeans™ implementation to assemble a Web archive (WAR) file. The resulting WAR file contains the JavaBeans implementation and the supported classes created from the tooling.
After you have developed the Java artifacts necessary to develop a Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) Web service, you must complete the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) implementation to assemble a Java archive (JAR) file. The resulting JAR file contains the Enterprise JavaBeans implementation and the supported classes created from the tooling.