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Eclipse Implementation of XML Web Services is a Web Services framework that provides tools and infrastructure to develop Web Services solutions for the end users and middleware developers.

With Eclipse Implementation of XML Web Services, clients and web services have a big advantage: the platform independence of the Java programming language.

This project is part of Eclipse Metro

Download Jakarta XML Web Services Release

The latest stable release of Jakarta XML Web Services is available for download as well as for consumption through maven.

        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>jakarta.xml.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>jakarta.xml.ws-api</artifactId>
                <version>4.0.0</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>

        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
                <version>4.0.0</version>
                <scope>runtime</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>

Documentation

The release includes the following documentation:

The documentation/samples included with Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services distribution describes how to use Jakarta XML Web Services to develop and deploy your webservices endpoints in a servlet container.

The samples discussed in this document and available as part of Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services distribution are tested to work on GlassFish and on Apache Tomcat. The deployment is demonstrated using Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services specific proprietary deployment descriptor sun-jaxws.xml.

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Previous versions of Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services are available for download as well as for consumption through maven.

Documentation for version 3.0.x

Documentation for version 2.3.x

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