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31 Building Web Services with JAX-WS
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This chapter describes Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), a
technology for building web services and clients that communicate using
XML. JAX-WS allows developers to write message-oriented as well as
Remote Procedure Call–oriented (RPC-oriented) web services.

The following topics are addressed here:

* link:jaxws001.html#A1250966[Overview of Java API for XML Web Services]
* link:jaxws002.html#BNAYN[Creating a Simple Web Service and Clients with
JAX-WS]
* link:jaxws003.html#BNAZC[Types Supported by JAX-WS]
* link:jaxws004.html#BNAZD[Web Services Interoperability and JAX-WS]
* link:jaxws005.html#BNAZE[Further Information about JAX-WS]
