Jakarta Web Services Metadata (original) (raw)

Jakarta Web Services Metadata (JWS; formerly Web Services Metadata for Java platform and Java Web Services), as a part of Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS), is a Java programming language specification (JSR-181) primarily used to standardize the development of web service interfaces for the Jakarta EE platform. Some of the annotations specified by this JSR are: * @WebService * @WebMethod * @Oneway * @WebParam * @WebResult * @HandlerChain * @SOAPBinding Put simply, JSR 181 is a specification to define standard and portable web services. It offers the following benefits: