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| <title>Creating top-down Web services</title> |
| <shortdesc>Web services can be created using two methods: top-down development |
| and bottom-up development. Top-down Web services development involves creating |
| a Web service from a WSDL file.</shortdesc> |
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| <keywords><indexterm>top-down Web services<indexterm>creating</indexterm></indexterm> |
| <indexterm>Web services<indexterm>top-down</indexterm></indexterm> |
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| <p>When creating a Web service using a top-down approach, first you design |
| the implementation of the Web service by creating a WSDL file. You can do |
| this using the WSDL Editor. You can then use the Web services wizard to create |
| the Web service and skeleton <tm tmclass="special" tmowner="Sun Microsystems, Inc." |
| tmtype="tm" trademark="Java">Java</tm> classes to which you can add the required |
| code.</p> |
| <p>Although bottom-up Web service development may be faster and easier, especially |
| if you are new to Web services, the top-down approach is the recommended way |
| of creating a Web service. By creating the WSDL file first you will ultimately |
| have more control over the Web service, and can eliminate interoperability |
| issues that may arise when creating a Web service using the bottom-up method.</p> |
| </conbody> |
| <related-links> |
| <linklist><title>Related Concepts</title> |
| <link href="cws.dita"></link> |
| <link href="cwsinwsa.dita"></link> |
| <link href="cwsbtmup.dita" scope="local"></link> |
| </linklist> |
| <linklist><title>Related Tasks</title> |
| <link href="../tasks/toverws.dita" scope="local"><linktext> Developing Web |
| services</linktext></link> |
| </linklist> |
| </related-links> |
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