This page provides a starting point for finding information about web services.
Web services are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network. They implement a services oriented architecture (SOA), which supports the connecting or sharing of resources and data in a very flexible and standardized manner. Services are described and organized to support their dynamic, automated discovery and reuse.
You can plan to develop and implement web services based on a variety of Java programming models.
You can administer deployed web services applications using the administrative console.
You can use policy sets, or assertions that define services, to simplify your web services configuration because policy sets group security and other web services settings into reusable units. You can use the administrative console to create, modify, and delete custom policy sets.