Creating and Invoking a Web service using GlassFish in NetBeans, IntelliJ, and Eclipse - Part 1

GlassFish is
supported in NetBeans, IntelliJ
IDEA and Eclipse.
I'm starting a 3-part blog that will explain my experience in developing,
deploying and invoking a Web service in each of these IDEs. Today, I start with
NetBeans.

I'm using NetBeans 5.5.1
for the experiment purpose but these features are available NetBeans 5.0
onwards. Here are the steps that I followed.

1. Install GlassFish: Before you begin, make sure a GlassFish
   instance is configured in NetBeans. If not, then it can be added by
   right-clicking on "Servers" in the "Runtime" tab and
   selecting "Add Server" and picking the directory
   location where GlassFish is installed. I configured GlassFish
   v2 b31.
2. Create a project: Create a new
   Web application project by selecting "File", "New Project".
   Take all the defaults.
3. Add a Web service: Right-click on the project name and select
   "New", "Web Service ...". Take the defaults
   and just specify the package name. Click on "Finish" button. The
   IDE creates a template Web service and adds a new Web services node to your
   project.
4. Add an operation: Expand the Web service node and select the newly
   created Web service. Right-click and select "Add Operation" as shown
   here.
5. Implement the logic: Implement
   the business logic, in this case returning a simple concatenation of
   strings "Hello " and the parameter.
6. Deploy the Web service: Right-click on the project and select
   "Deploy Project".
7. Invoke the Web service: Once deployed, as reported in the Output
   window, right click on Web service name in the Projects tab and select
   "Test Web Service". This brings up a web
   page in your default browser to test the Web service. You can view the
   WSDL of the Web service by clicking on "WSDL File" link and invoke
   it by entering a value in the text box. The result
   page shows you the result of Web service invocation and SOAP request and
   response messages.

These steps are described in NetBeans help after I searched on "web
service from Java" in the bundled help. Googling
for this term (along with NetBeans) gave me Create
a Web Service Using NetBeans 5.0 IDE and Consume the Service with Sun Java
Studio Creator 2 IDE and Web Services
Support in  the NetBeans IDE. Both the links contain the appropriate
content and provide all the information required for a newbie to get started.

Next, I'll try with IntelliJ IDEA
and Eclipse.

_{Technorati: NetBeans IntelliJ
Eclipse GlassFish
Web service}