Do I really need Eclipse-WTP for JBossWS WebServices? Or is

[thoste]

Originally the Eclipse WebToolsPlatform WTP was designed to ease the handling of creation of web services.
However the developer has still to setup WTP for a specific environment (Application Server, and WS technology). As a first example Apache Tomcat and Axis were implemented.

JBossWS as a JAX-WS implementation does not use the structures of WTP.

When I go in Eclipse to
Preferences->Web Services->Server and Runtime

I cannot set "JBossWS" as runtime.

Instead JBoss offers their own plugin: JBossTools (formerly JBossIDE).

So for what do I need WTP when I use JBossWS web services?

What can I do with WTP what I cannot with JBossTools?

Thomas

[maxandersen]

JBoss Tools new WS integration uses WTP so it is dependent on WTP too.

You need JBT 3.x for that.

[dennyxu]

So far, the predefined web service runtime in WTP are Axis and Axis2, they only generate JAX-RPC Web service, JBoss Tools 3.x Web Service support is based on WTP Web Service framework and has JBossWS as a new web service runtime in WTP, it support to generate JAX-WS Web Service code rather than JAX-RPC.
JBossWS Web Service support in JBT 3.x is a new component, you can try it if install JBT 3.x, we appreciate if you can give us any feedback :)