Welcome to the JBoss implementation of J2EE compliant web services (ws4ee). Starting from J2EE-1.4 a compliant application server is required to support web services in a portable way.

There is a server side programming model and a client side programming model to ws4ee. The server side programming model is about exposing stateless session beans as well as plain java objects as service endpoints. The client side programming model is about how to access remote web services from your J2EE components. The ws4ee specification defines a set of deployment descriptors and standard APIs to access web service related objects (eg. SOAP msg, message context).

The content on this page is relevant for jboss-4.0.4 and above.

For other versions see Supported Web Service Stacks.

JBossAS-4.0.x is a J2EE-1.4 compliant app server. It therefore targets jdk-1.4. If you want to use the EJB3 or JSR-181 features, you must install JBoss using the installer. You'll have to select the 'ejb3' profile in the installer and make sure you're running jdk-1.5.

Frequently Asked Questions

• JBossWS FAQs

• JBossWS Stack Comparison

• Upgrading to JBossWS

Documentation

• JBossWS User Guide

• JBossWS Getting Started with 181

• JBossWS Getting Started With NetBeans

• JBoss Admin & Developers Guide

• J2EE Web Services by Richard Monson-Haefel

• Thirdparty Documentation

• DocumentationQueue

• InternalDocumentation

Advanced

• WS-Security

Registry

• Java API for XML Registries

• Working with UDDI - example

• Working with UDDI - accesspoint locator service

Integration With Other Platforms

• JBossWS & Microsoft .Net

Articles on the Web

• Web Services Security in Java EE (The present and future)

• Moving to SOA in J2EE 1.4

• Web Services with JAX-RPC

• Consuming a web service using JAX-RPC

• Patterns and Strategies for Building Document-Based Web Services

• Using XML schemas effectively in WSDL design

• Which style of WSDL should I use?

• Seperation of Concerns and BPEL

J2EE-1.4 Web Services Specifications

• J2EE-1.4 - Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4

• WS4EE-1.1 - Enterprise Web Services

• EJB-2.1 - Enterprise Java Beans

• JAXRPC-1.1 - Java API for XML-based RPC

• SAAJ-1.2 - SOAP with Attachments

• JAXR-1.0 - Java API for XML Registries

• SOAP-1.1 - Simple Object Access Protocol

• WSDL-1.1 - Web Services Description Language

• XML-1.0 - Extensible Markup Language

• XMLSchema - Structures

• XMLSchema - Data Types

• XMLSchema Primer

• XMLNS - Namespaces in XML

• BP-1.0 - Basic Profile

J2EE-5.0 Web Services Specifications

• J2EE-5.0 - Java2 Enterprise Edition Specification (JSR244)

• WS4EE-1.1 - Enterprise Web Services (JSR921)

• EJB-3.0 - Enterprise Java Beans (JSR220)

• JAXWS-2.0 - Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JSR224)

• JAXB-2.0 - Java Architecture for XML Binding (JSR222)

• SOAP-1.2 - SOAP Messaging Framework

• SOAP-1.2 Primer

• WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2

• WSDL-2.0 - Part 1: Core Language

• WSDL-2.0 - Part 2: Predefined Extensions

• WSDL-2.0 - Part 3: Bindings

• WSDL-2.0 Primer

• BP-1.1 - Basic Profile

• JSR181 - Web Services Metadata

• WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0

• SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

• XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)

Optional advanced Web Services specifications

• MSDN Web Services Specifications Index Page

• WS-Distributed Managment

• WS-Notification

• WS-ReliableMessaging

• WS-Resource

• WS-Transaction

• WS-BPEL

Please provide feedback on your needs of these optional WS specifications as this will influence what we will put on the JBossWS roadmap.