Mustang : The Fast Track To Web Services

Check out new article at Javaworld.com about Web Services capabilities in J2SE Mustang

The upcoming release of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 6.0, also known as Mustang, makes development and consumption of Web services a breeze. It brings the power of metadata (just type @WebService and you are almost done) to simple Java classes, enabling them to be deployed as Web services. It also brings the Java API for XML Web Services to clients consuming those services. This article takes a hands-on approach to developing metadata-based Web services and thereafter consuming them using JAX-WS.