# Overview

&jax-ws.product.name; 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.product.name;, clients and web services have a big advantage: the platform independence of the Java programming language.

## Documentation

This release includes the following documentation:

- API Documentation

The documentation/samples included with JAX-WS that is distributed on GitHub 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

- 2012 Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

- JAX-WS &jax-ws.release.impl.version; 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 GitHub: https://github.com/javaee/metro-jax-ws.

- JAX-WS Group on groups.io

- Issue Tracker