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

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(SDK) for developing

Web Services A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

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s and

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

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. All components of JWSDP are part of

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

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-approved

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license.

Java APIs

These are the components and

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s available in the JWSDP 1.6: * Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), v 1.3 *

Java API for XML Registries Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR; formerly Java API for XML Registries) defines a standardization, standard API for Jakarta EE application software, applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registry, metadat ...

(JAXR) *

Java Architecture for XML Binding Jakarta 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 int ...

(JAXB), v 1.0 and 2.0 * JAX-RPC v 1.1 * JAX-WS v 2.0 * SAAJ (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 standard for the binary encoding of the XML infoset. Earlier versions of JWSDP also included *

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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 - web services stack from GlassFish * Apache Axis - web services framework * XINS - RPC/web services framework * xmlenc - XML output library * JBossWS - web services stack from JBoss

References

External links

SAAJ from sun.com

Sun Microsystems JWSDP Site
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