About Annotations in Web Services

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Annotations play a critical role in JAX-WS web services. Annotations are used in mapping Java to WSDL and schema files. They are used at runtime to control how the JAX-WS runtime processes and responds to web service invocations.

At the time of writing, the annotations utilized by JAX-WS are defined in separate JSRs:

For details, see

Web Service Annotations in the IDE

In the IDE, you can use code completion when working with annotations.

See Also
About Web Services
About Configuring Web Services
Configuring Web Services via Annotations
Configuring Web Services via Deployment Descriptors

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