Chapter 12. Spring with Web Service Integration

In this chapter, we will see how Spring provides support to the JAX_WS web service and also see how to create a web service in Spring Web Service (Spring-WS) framework. We shall also see how the Spring Web Service can be consumed by demonstrating a client application, along with the annotations supported by Spring for Web services.

Spring with JAX-WS

In this section, let's create a simple JAX-WS web service. We shall also see how we can integrate the JAX-WS Web Service with Spring. JAX-WS is the latest version of JAX-RPC, which used remote method invocation protocol to access Web services.

All we need to do here is to expose Spring's service layer as JAX_WS service provider layer. This can be done using ...

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