The Java SE-Java EE web – web service kit is a package of example applications that shows how Apache Ant scripts can be used for building and deploying web service applications. This kit gives you an overview of multiple combinations for building and deploying web services to Java EE web containers. It makes it easier for you to get started with web services.

The web service kit shows several ways of building SOAP-based web services and RESTful web services using JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services)  and JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful Web Services) RI (Reference Implementation), also known as Jersey. The kit describes how to deploy the web services to GlassFish, Tomcat and the light-weight HTTP server in JDK (Java SE Development Kit). It also shows how to build and run client applications that call the web services.

The web service kit should primarily be used for education. However, it can also be used as an example, guide and tool for Java developers to simplify the use of web services in Java. The kit is based on Ant build scripts with general Ant tasks for generating web services artifacts, Javadoc, Jar lib for WS artifacts and implementation as well as for executing test.

This kit contains sample web service applications, client applications and corresponding Ant scripts for building, deploying and running the applications.  The sample applications and Ant scripts can be used as templates when building, deploying and running your own web service applications and client applications.

By Pär Johansson and Peter Yeung