Introduction

There are numerous ways one can make a Web Service , some of them are listed below :

• Using Netbeans axis2 support
• Using Eclipse axis2 support
• Using Eclipse WTP tool
• Using Oracle Jdeveloper (suitable if your web service container is Oracle 10 as)

According to me best choice would be Netbeans axis2 support as I haven't found any bug in it yet .

Eclipse axis2 support lets you know what exactly one is doing but it has bugs which are still open and has not been fixed yet. Hoping that in future these bugs would be removed :) .

This blog provides a detailed tutorial for creating a Web Service using Axis2 support in Eclipse. I will split the tutorial into sections for easy reference.

Sections :

• Tools Required
• Setting up environment for development
• Writing Java Service Class
• Creating WSDL (using JavaToWSDL tool)
• Creating Java Client Stubs (using WSDLtoJava tool)
• Writing Java Client ( General )
• Creating .aar file of service
• Uploading the service
• Testing the service