Web Services Support in the NetBeans IDE

Web services are Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling clients. NetBeans 6.0 supports these web services through the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), which provides the APIs and tools you need to create and deploy interoperable Web services and clients.

NetBeans 6.0 adds the following significant web services features:

• Visual designer for Web Services development. - Overview
• Support for RESTful Web Services (JSR-311 based). - Overview, Video
• Support for WSIT in standard distribution.
• Call a Web service from an EJB, a Web or an Enterprise Application client module or a J2SE project with just a few clicks.
• Take a bottom-up approach to create a Web service from an EJB or from scratch.
• Take a top-down approach to create a Web service from a WSDL file.

Downloads & Current Status

• Want to stay current with our development? Check our wiki page ant get the latest build here: Downloads
• Want to stay with the latest stable version? Get it at NetBeans IDE downloads main page

Learn More About Web Services Technology

If you are not familiar yet with the Java Web Services technology, check out the following links to find more information:

• Web Services NetBeans 6.0 tutorials (NEW) - Landing page for all tutorials for both RESTful and SOAP based web services
• Web Service Interoperability Technology - Microsoft interoperable web services - Installation, Information, Tutorials
• Hands On Lab: Make Java and .NET 3.0 Interoperability Work with WSIT - Step-By-Step instructions for securing web services using WSIT and communicating with both WSIT and Microsoft WCF
• Java Web Services Documentation - Documentation for web services technologies (FAQs, Tutorials, API Documentation, and more)
• Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) - home page of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
• Java EE 5 Developer Training

Related Articles and Blogs

• Arun Gupta's blog
• Arun Gupta's archived screencasts
• Milan Kuchtiak's blog
• Chris Webster's blog
• Brian Leonard's blog
• Paul Sandoz's blog about RESTful web services
• Geetjan's blog on everything Netbeans
• Web Services NetBeans tutorials
• JAX-WS Web Service Tutorial for JBoss
• Asynchronous JAX-WS Web Service Client
• Building JAX-WS Services with NetBeans
• Message-Level Web Service Security and Demi Moore

Want to Participate?

The simplest way how to participate and to improve current status of the Web Services support in the NetBeans IDE is to share your ideas for improvements or complains about the functionality and/or quality with us on our mailing list or in our bug tracking system.

For those interested, the source code can be found here.

Currently participating in this project are:

Ajit Bhate (ajit.bhate at sun.com)
Rico Cruz (roderico.cruz at sun.com)
Ken Ganfield, documentation (kenneth.ganfield at sun.com)
Martin Grebac (martin.grebac at sun.com)
Martin Matula, engineering manager (martin.matula at sun.com)
Ayub Khan (ayub.khan at sun.com)
Frank Kieviet (frank.kieviet at sun.com)
Milan Kuchtiak (milan.kuchtiak at sun.com)
Hong Lin (hong.lin at sun.com)
Peter Liu (peter.liu at sun.com)
Srividhya Narayanan, engineering manager (srividhya.narayanan at sun.com)
Nam Nguyen (nam.nguyen at sun.com)
Petr Jiricka, engineering manager (petr.jiricka at sun.com)
Lukas Jungmann (lukas.jungmann at sun.com)
Girish Patil (girish.patil at sun.com)
Jaroslav Pospisil (jaroslav.pospisil at sun.com)
Venugopal Venkataraman (venu.v at sun.com)
Geertjan Wielenga, documentation (geertjan.wielenga at sun.com)

Participated in this project in a past:

Janet Breuer (janet.breuer at sun.com)
Ludovic Champenois (ludo at sun.com)
Marek Fukala (marek.fukala at sun.com)
Ana Lindstrom-Tamer (ana.lindstrom-tamer at sun.com)
Ramesh Mandava (ramesh.mandava at sun.com)
Radko Najman (radko.najman at sun.com)
Petr Pisl (petr.pisl at sun.com)
Tomasz Slota (tomasz.slota at sun.com)
Peter Williams (pete.williams at sun.com)

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