# Java TM API for XML Web Services
(JAX-WS)
Overview

Specification Version: 2.2
Implementation Version: 2.2.5

- Overview
- Release Notes
- Changelog

JAX-WS RI 2.2.5 is a Web Services framework that provides tools and infrastructure to develop Web Services solutions for the end users and middleware developers.

With JAX-WS RI 2.2.5, clients and web services have a big advantage: the platform independence of the Java programming language.

## Documentation

This release includes the following documentation:

- JAX-WS Release Notes
- User's Guide
- JAX-WS Tools
- JAX-WS Samples
- JAX-WS API Documentation
- JAX-WS 2.2.5 Architecture Document

The documentation/samples included with JAX-WS that is distributed on Java.net describes how to use JAX-WS to develop and deploy your webservices endpoints in a servlet container. The samples discussed in this document and available as part of JAX-WS distribution are tested to work on Glassfish and on Apache Tomcat. The deployment is demonstrated using JAX-WS RI specific proprietary deployment descriptor sun-jaxws.xml.

If you wish to use JAX-WS in a Java EE container in a portable manner (using JSR 109 deployment descriptors), please refer to the Java EE 6 or Glassfish documentation/samples. The majority of the documentation included with JAX-WS is valid with Java EE 6 as well.

## Software Licenses

- 2010 Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- JAX-WS 2.2.5 is covered by CDDL v1.1 and GPL v2
- 3rd Party License README

## Useful Links

Please use the Metro and JAXB forum for feedback.

JAX-WS has a project page on Java.net: http://jax-ws.java.net.