WAS v8.5 > New features > New features overview: Developing > New featuresIntroduction: Web services
Explore the key concepts pertaining to web services applications. Web services are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network. They implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which supports the connecting or sharing of resources and data in a flexible and standardized manner. Services are described and organized to support their dynamic, automated discovery and reuse.
The WebSphere Application Server supports a set of web services standards that support the creation and administration of interoperable, securable, transactionable, and reliable web services applications. Using the strategic Java™ API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) programming model, web service clients can now additionally invoke web services asynchronously, which means your client can continue processing without waiting on the response. Your JAX-WS web services can also take advantage of the Web Services Reliable Messaging protocol quality of service where we can be confident that your communication is reliable and reaches its destination while interoperating with other vendors.
JAX-WS extends JAX-RPC with support for annotations.
Related concepts:
Web Services Security enhancements
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Tasks: Implementing web services applications
Reference:
Web services specifications and APIs