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The 2008 edition of Saltmarch Media’s annual Great Indian Developer Summit, centered around the theme of "Recipes for Enterprise Productivity", featured a blockbuster convergence of three on-the-radar co-located conferences that no entity in the "Developer ecosystem" can ignore in their quest for success at work and in their careers – Bleeding-edge .NET, Rich Web and Daring Java. Sanjaya Karunasena presented a talk titled "Web Services Development in Java without JEE" at the summit.

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This article by Amila Suriarachchi describes how to write the contract of a Web service and implement this service using the tools available with Apache Axis2. He goes further to explain how to access the service using a generated client. He describes the request messages and response messages elaborating on the real message formats that are passed through at the wire level.