Developing web services and clients

You can create web services and clients by using the web services wizards, annotations, Ant tasks, or command-line tools.

Methods of creating Web services and clients
Web services and clients can be created by various methods such as annotations, Ant tasks, or web services wizards.
Creating web services and clients by using the web service wizards
Use web services tools to discover, create, and publish web services that are created from Java™ beans, enterprise beans, and WSDL files. You can create web services by using a top-down approach (which starts with a WSDL file) or a bottom-up approach (which starts with a Java bean or EJB).
Creating web services by using annotations
With the Java API for XML-Based web services, you can use annotations in your Java code to simplify creating web services.
Creating web services and clients with Ant tasks or command line tools
If you prefer not to use the web service wizards, you can use Ant tasks or command line tools to create web services using the IBM® WebSphere® runtime environments or Axis runtime environment.

Parent topic: Developing web service applications