Java web services on fedora 10i386

Question

Hello, I am a .net web services developer.

I want do develop web services on Java platform using LAMP platform.

Currently I have fedora 10i386 with Apache web server and eclipse IDE.

Please suggest me tools, plugins for eclipse that I can use to develop web service's as it is possible in .net platform using visual studio and MS sql server.

If above is not possible please suggest me suitable alternatives(tutorials) for developing Java web services on Apache as I am totally new in this LAMP field.

thanks in advance

Ashish

Answer 1

Well the P in LAMP stands for PHP, which is not Java!

Anyway, if you download Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers, there is a Web Services plug-in available. It uses Axis2, which may not be the best Java Web Services framework, but it is more than fine for a beginner. You can find some tutorials here.

Alternatively, you can use Netbeans, which uses JAX-WS technology. A tutorial is available here.

Answer 2

The fastest way to do what you want to do is to install the latest version of Glassfish which supports having classes compiled with Java 6 and the @javax.something.WebService tag to automagically create the necessary scaffolding on the fly around your code.

Netbeans and the JEE version of Eclipse has good support for Glassfish.

(This is not an endorsement as such of Glassfish opposed to other JEE containers - just stating that Glassfish has the mechanisms built in you need).

Answer 3

I know this isn't related to LAMP, but do you believe Glassfish is production ready?

Which version of Glassfish would you use (latest build of v2, or would you dare for v3?)?

Would you have to configure anything extra for the WebServices or just annotate the Java classes, package, and deploy them in a WAR?