Sign up ×  I am new to web service and WSDL. I have a MySQL
database stored in a server and I need to create a very simple
web service that allows third party Java applications to input
an integer (say 'membership number') and receive a string (say
'member name'). This should be done with WSDL.  Can someone
please tell me what files do I need? A WSDL file, a schema file?
Do I need a Java class stored in the server responsible to
communicate with the database? I am pretty lost, I would be
thankful if you could give me some suggestion  share|improve
this question  3 Answers 3  As the simplest form of webservice
is you can continue with JAX-WS, upon deployment of appilication
it will publish a WSDL file and you can use this WSDL to
communicate it from client  share|improve this answer  JAX-WS is
the simplest way to convert an existing method into a web
service endpoint, with a few annotations, and the simple web
server in the standard Java 6 JRE. It can autogenerate the WSDL
too.  This tutorial covers the essent