In this chapter, we looked at both SOAP and RESTful web services. We saw how NetBeans provides support for creating SOAP-based web services from scratch and also from WSDL files. We saw that we can create RESTful web services from a set of @Entity classes or database tables, or through several patterns. With both SOAP and RESTful web services, we saw how NetBeans provides tools for creating and managing web services. We also learned how we can easily consume SOAP web services, and how JavaScript clients can easily consume RESTful web services.

In the next, final chapter of the book, we'll take a wider look at NetBeans and see how we can create NetBeans plugins and rich client platform applications.