Java Web Services Development Pack

The Java Web Services Development Pack (JWSDP) is a free software development kit (SDK) for developing Web Services, Web applications and Java applications with the newest technologies for Java.

Oracle replaced JWSDP with GlassFish.^[1] All components of JWSDP are part of GlassFish and WSIT and several are in Java SE 6 ("Mustang"). The source is available under the Open Source Initiative-approved CDDL license.

Java APIs

These are the components and APIs available in the JWSDP 1.6:

• Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), v 1.3
• Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), v 1.0 and 2.0
• JAX-RPC v 1.1
• JAX-WS v 2.0
• SAAJ (SOAP with Attachments API for Java)
• Web Services Registry

Starting with JWSDP 1.6, the JAX-RPC and JAX-WS implementations support the Fast Infoset standard for the binary encoding of the XML infoset. Earlier versions of JWSDP also included

• Java Servlet
• JavaServer Pages
• JavaServer Faces

Related technologies

There are many other Java implementations of Web Services or XML processors. Some of them support the Java standards, some support other standards or non-standard features. Related technologies include:

• Eclipse Metro - web services stack from GlassFish
• Apache Axis - web services framework
• XINS - RPC/web services framework
• xmlenc - XML output library
• JBossWS - web services stack from JBoss