Java Technologies for Web Services - Understanding web services

I found an article on line.It allows sending a receiving SOAP messages with SAAJ.What I did not see was any reference to WSDL.Don't I need a WSDL file for creating a webservice?Thanks.
[220 byte] By [artfuldodgera] at [2007-11-26 23:16:08]
# 1

WSDL is not for creating webservice. It is for invoking WS

1. First you need a soap engine(eg axis)

2.axis.jar provides tools like wsdl2java, java2wsdl etc

3.In the server side, 1st do, java2wsdl and get the wsdl

4.in the client side do wsdl2java and get client java tubs

5.now call the clients

regards,

mukunt

mkunasek123a at 2007-7-10 14:16:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 2

1. anyone can give me gud tutorial about web services, soap, saaj in nb 5.5? I hav found a few tutorial in google, but im still confused. I need more info about the annotations, its functions, what we need in server, & in client?

2. Can the java application be the server of web service?

3. is SAAJ web service 2?

abanka at 2007-7-10 14:16:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 3

2. Can the java application be the server of web service?

Yes

3. is SAAJ web service 2?

You mean saaj.jar ? its for JAX/RPC . saaj.jar is just a helper which is internally used by axis and it is not visible to the developer

Regard,

Mukunt

mkunasek123a at 2007-7-10 14:16:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...