A is a Web-based application that uses specific protocols to exchange data with calling clients. An application sends a request to a web service at a specific URL. The service receives the request, processes it, and returns a response. For example, a common web service is a stock quote service where the request asks for the current price of a specified stock, and the response returns the stock price.
The IDE ships with several sample web services. You can add other web services to the IDE for use in your applications as described in Adding a Web Service to the IDE. After you
add a web service to the IDE, the web service appears under the
Web Services node in
the
.
You can expand the web-service-name node to see its methods. Each method
has a different signature, although some methods can have the same name.
To use a web service in an application with Visual Web JSF support, you must add the web service to the page, as described in Adding a Web Service to a Visual Web JSF page.