Best IDE for developing java web services (for beginners)

Question

I am trying to learn how to work with java webservices, but i had some issues working with eclipse bundeled with some incubated modules, which give me some errors while trying to program something.

Can you suggest me an IDE for developing java webservices, which would be easy to use (or which eclipse package...), especially for beginners.

It would be grate if you could maybe also point me some tutorials of how to create a simple java webservice step by step. The ones that if ound where kind of "old" 4-6 years ago.

Answer 1

Try Java EE 6 examples with Glassfish. They are relatively fresh and Glassfish has an excellent support for almost all parts of the spec

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/bnayk.html

Answer 2

With eclipse and axis look at this:
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/1_2/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html

Answer 3

I just went through the same process, and didn't have many problems using eclipse. Once you get past the initial learning curve of setting things up, it's really not that bad :)

Here's some of the sources I used to learn how to build JAX-WS services:

• http://download-llnw.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/?wp405739&JAXWS.html#wp72279
  JAX-WS/Java EE tutorial from Oracle, updated June 2010

• https://metro.dev.java.net/getting-started/basic.html#Building_Server
  This gives some useful code snippets whether you are starting from Java or from a WSDL file.

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html
  Information on JSP tags and the JSTL standard libraries. (these are super useful when writing the JSP pages your user will end up seeing)

• http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/display.html?article=2001081601&page=1
  Information on JSP scripting tags and custom tags in general.

• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/code_convention/
  JSP code conventions/best practices