Creating top-down Web services

Web services can be created using two methods: top-down development and bottom-up development. Top-down Web services development involves creating a Web service from a WSDL file.

Although bottom-up Web service development may be faster and easier, especially if you are new to Web services, the top-down approach is the recommended way of creating a Web service.

When creating a Web service using a top-down approach, first you design the implementation of the Web service by creating a WSDL file. You can do this using the WSDL Editor. You can then use the Web services wizard to create the Web service and skeleton Java classes to which you can add the required code.

 

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Creating Web services

 

Related Concepts

Web services overview
Tools for Web services development
Creating bottom-up Web services

Related Tasks
Developing Web services