Web Services almost always communicate using HTTP. HTTP is the transfer protocol. Web Services can either be SOAP based XML or just plain XML. In the former case, SOAP is the content protocol. Web Services using SOAP is the industry standard right now so I would recommend you go that route. There are lots of tools out there to generates stubs, etc., including JBoss' wstools. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962972#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...