Web Services Development

JDeveloper provides powerful tools that help you develop and deploy web services. Web services consist of a set of messaging protocols and programming standards that expose business functions over the Internet using open standards.

JDeveloper supports developing and deploying web services based on the evolving J2EE web services standards, and deployment to the Oracle SOAP server. JDeveloper can interoperate with web services developed to Microsoft's .NET architecture to produce stubs, or proxies, to those services.

Features for web services development include:

• Quick one-click publication of a Java class as a web service

• Support for additional PL/SQL parameter publishing: Boolean, IN/OUT, BLOB, CLOB, XMLType

• Drag-and-drop WSDL from UDDI browser to create client-side stub on a diagram

• Integrated testing of WSDL files and running web services for WS-I Basic Profile conformance

• Enhanced TCP Packet Monitor for monitoring and logging

• Integrated web services in ADF applications

• Drag-and-drop WSDL to the ADF Data Binding Palette to create an ADF Data Control

• Databases enabled to call web services

• Web services deployed to the database

You can create a web service based on a Java class, an EJB, an ADF Business Components module wrapped as an EJB, a JMS Queue Endpoint, and from a PL/SQL package containing program units. In addition, you can use JDeveloper's powerful UML modeling tools to visually create web services on a diagram, or create a web service based on a modeled Java class.