Creating Web Services and Web Service Clients

You can use SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to create Web services and Web service clients in the following ways:

• Preparing SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio

  For more information, see Configuring the Application Server in the Developer Studio and Connecting the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to the Services Re .

• Providing Web services

  You can create a Web service in Java starting from an available implementation (inside-out approach), or from a WSDL document (outside-in approach). For more information, see Providing Web Services .

  Optionally, you can apply basic configuration settings to the Web service by using annotations provided by SAP. For more information, see Configuring Web Services at Design Time .

• Consuming Web services

  When you have provided remote functionality exposed as a Web service, you can create a Web service client for it.

  For more information, see Consuming Web Services .

After you deploy a Web service or Web service client to AS Java, you can configure, publish, and monitor it using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator tool, or test it with the Web Services Navigator tool. For more information, see Web Service Administration .

• SAP supports several specifications related to Web service development. For more information, see Supported Specifications .

• The tutorials provide detailed step-by-step information about how you can create and configure Web services and Web service clients. For more information, see Tutorials .