If you are familiar with J2EE and prefer a more hands-on approach to developing WebLogic Web services, you can use the Ant tasks included in WebLogic Server to develop Web services based on a variety of backend components, such as stateless session EJBs, Java classes, and JMS destinations. These WebLogic Server Web services offer:

- a complete development and deployment environment for WebLogic Server.
- full support for SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI standards.
- excellent support for cross-vendor interoperability, especially .NET.
- full compliance with Java Web service standards (JAX-RPC).
- support for deploying Web services in standard J2EE applications packaged as EAR files.
- automatic data type mapping between XML and Java.
- SOAP message handlers to access the request and response SOAP messages.
- connection oriented point-to-point sercurity for WebLogic Web service operations, as well as authorization and authentication.
- a standalone thin client for accessing both WebLogic and non-WebLogic Web services.