Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

Using JAX-WS reference implementation (Glassfish Metro)

Annotating a class with @WebService is not enough to implement a web service. We need a library that implements JAX-WS specification. There are a number of JAX-WS frameworks available, for example, Axis2, Apache CFX, and Glassfish Metro. In this chapter, we will use the Glassfish Metro implementation, which is also a reference implementation (https://jax-ws.java.net/) of JAX-WS from Oracle.

Let's add Maven dependency for the JAX-WS framework. Open pom.xml and add the following dependency:

  <dependencies> 
    <dependency> 
      <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId> 
      <artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId> 
      <version>2.2.10</version> 
    </dependency> 
  </dependencies> 

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