The Java Web Services Development Pack (JWSDP) is a free

software development kit A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger and sometimes a software framework. They are normally specific to ...

(SDK) for developing Web Services,

Web application A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser. Web applications are delivered on the World Wide Web to users with an active network connection. History In earlier computing models like client-serve ...

s and

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applications with the newest technologies for Java. Oracle replaced JWSDP with

GlassFish GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server project started by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by Payara, Oracle and Red Hat. The supported v ...

. All components of JWSDP are part of

and

WSIT Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an open-source project started by Sun Microsystems to develop the next-generation of Web service technologies. It provides interoperability between Java Web Services and Microsoft's Windows Commu ...

and several are in Java SE 6 ("Mustang"). The source is available under the

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-approved

CDDL The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is a free and open-source software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Files licensed under the CDDL can be combined with files licensed under oth ...

license.

Java APIs

These are the components and

API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standa ...

s available in the JWSDP 1.6: *

Java API for XML Processing In computing, the Java API for XML Processing, or JAXP ( ), one of the Java XML Application programming interfaces, provides the capability of validating and parsing XML documents. It has three basic parsing interfaces: * the Document Object M ...

(JAXP), v 1.3 *

Java API for XML Registries Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR; formerly Java API for XML Registries) defines a standard API for Jakarta EE applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registries. JAXR is one of the Java XML programming AP ...

(JAXR) *

Java Architecture for XML Binding Java XML Binding (JAXB; formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding) is a software framework that allows Java EE developers to map Java classes to XML representations. JAXB provides two main features: the ability to ''marshal'' Java objects into ...

(JAXB), v 1.0 and 2.0 *

JAX-RPC Jakarta XML RPC (JAX-RPC; formerly Java API for XML Based RPC) allows a Jakarta EE application to invoke a Java-based web service with a known description while still being consistent with its WSDL description. JAX-RPC is one of the Java XML progr ...

v 1.1 *

JAX-WS The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a Jakarta EE Application programming interface, API for creating web services, particularly SOAP services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs. Overview ...

v 2.0 *

SAAJ Jakarta SOAP with Attachments (SAAJ; formerly SOAP with Attachments API for Java), as part of Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS), provides a standard way to send XML documents over the Internet from the Jakarta EE platform. SAAJ enables developers ...

(SOAP with Attachments API for Java) * Web Services Registry Starting with JWSDP 1.6, the JAX-RPC and JAX-WS implementations support the

Fast Infoset Fast Infoset (or FI) is an international standard that specifies a binary encoding format for the XML Information Set (''XML Infoset'') as an alternative to the XML document format. It aims to provide more efficient serialization than the text-b ...

standard for the binary encoding of the XML infoset. Earlier versions of JWSDP also included *

Java Servlet A Jakarta Servlet (formerly Java Servlet) is a Java software component that extends the capabilities of a server. Although servlets can respond to many types of requests, they most commonly implement web containers for hosting web application ...

JavaServer Pages Jakarta Server Pages (JSP; formerly JavaServer Pages) is a collection of technologies that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, SOAP, or other document types. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems, J ...

JavaServer Faces Jakarta Faces, formerly Jakarta Server Faces and JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java specification for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community Process being part of t ...

Related technologies

There are many other Java implementations of Web Services or XML processors. Some of them support the Java standards, some support other standards or non-standard features. Related technologies include: *

Eclipse Metro Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack. Although historically an open-source part of the GlassFish application server, it can also be used in a stand-alone configuration. Components of Metro include: JAXB RI, JAX ...

- web services stack from GlassFish *

Apache Axis Apache Axis (Apache eXtensible Interaction System) is an open-source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service appl ...

- web services framework *

XINS XML Interface for Network Services (XINS) is an open-source technology for definition and implementation of internet applications, which enforces a specification-oriented approach. Specification-oriented approach The specification-oriented appr ...

- RPC/web services framework * xmlenc - XML output library *

JBossWS WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server written by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on mult ...

- web services stack from JBoss

References

External links

SAAJ from sun.com

Sun Microsystems JWSDP Site
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