Introducing WebLogic Workshop

WebLogic Workshop is the industry's leading visual development environment for building enterprise-class web services. With WebLogic Workshop, you can focus on building business logic into your web service rather than on complex implementation details. Whether you are an application developer with a problem to solve and no J2EE experience or a J2EE code jockey, WebLogic Workshop makes it easy to design, test, and deploy web services.

WebLogic Workshop's intuitive user interface lets you design your web service visually. Controls make it simple to connect to enterprise resources, like databases and Enterprise JavaBeans, without writing a lot of code. Conversations handle the job of keeping track of application state. And WebLogic Workshop's support for asynchronous processes makes it easy to build highly reliable web services for the enterprise.

The following topics are good places to start if you are new to web services and WebLogic Workshop.

What Are Web Services?

What are web services, and what technologies do they rely on?

Tutorial: Your First Web Service

Build your first web service quickly with our hands-on tutorial. Then explore WebLogic Workshop in-depth to learn how to build powerful services.

Building Web Services with WebLogic Workshop

Gives an overview of how you build services with WebLogic Workshop.

How Do I? Topics

Provides links to information about common tasks in building web services.

Introduction to Java

Covers the basics of Java programming for the new Java developer.

Introduction to XML

Introduces Extensible Markup Language (XML), the language with which web services communicate.

Sample Web Services

Lists and describes samples included with WebLogic Workshop.