Web services deployment

1. A computer-implemented method for deploying contents of a Web services archive comprising:

searching the Web services archive for a metadata descriptor file that describes a mapping between a Web service described in the Web services archive and a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) file that includes mapping information that is stored in the Web services archive;

reading the metadata descriptor to determine which Web service is described in the Web services archive;

storing the metadata descriptor and the mapping information in a Web services registry;

generating a set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters using a types descriptor that specifies a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files and the WSDL file of the Web services archive;

retrieving the mapping information from the Web services registry; and

storing the mapping information as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information including a plurality of mapping descriptors that include a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor including a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

saving information from the Web services archive into a file system.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

saving the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters into the file system.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

persisting the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters, the Web services archive, and the metadata descriptor to a data base.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

notifying a protocol in a protocol stack that the Web services archive has been deployed.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

providing configuration data to the protocol.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:

search the Web services archive for a metadata descriptor file that describes a mapping between a Web service described in the Web services archive and a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) file that includes mapping information that is stored in the Web services archive;

read the metadata descriptor to determine which Web service is described in the Web services archive;

store the metadata descriptor and the mapping information in a Web services registry; and

generate a set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters using a types descriptor that specifies a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files and the WSDL file of the Web services archive;

retrieve the mapping information from the Web services registry; and

store the mapping information as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information including a plurality of mapping descriptors that include a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor including a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 7 , the computer-readable medium further to:

save information from the Web services archive into a file system.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , computer-readable medium further to:

save the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters into the file system.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , the computer-readable medium further to:

persist the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters, the archive, and the metadata descriptors to a database.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 7 , the computer-readable medium further to:

notify a protocol in a protocol stack that the Web services archive has been deployed.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , the computer-readable medium further to:

provide configuration data to the protocol.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory to provide functionality including,

a deployment service to receive a deployable Web services archive file, wherein the Web services archive file includes:

a WSDL file describing a Web service to be deployed,

a Web service class implementation file,

a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) mapping file that includes mapping information,

a types file specifying a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files,

a configuration file, and

a metadata descriptor file describing locations of the files in the Web services archive;

a deployment manager to deploy the Web services archive file received by the deployment service, the deployment manager to store the mapping information in a web services registry;

a runtime data registry to store at least a portion of the Web services archive's contents; and

a runtime object to retrieve the mapping information from the Web services registry to cause the mapping information to store as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information includes a plurality of mapping descriptors that includes a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor includes a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the Web services deployable archive file is a WAR file.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the deployable Web services archive file is a JAR file.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further including receiving the first message.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the first message is selected from a group of messages including a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) message and a multipurpose Internet mail extension (MIME) message.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first method descriptor includes:

a name of the first method;

an order of objects that the first method accepts as input parameters;

a specification of the types of objects that the first method accepts as input parameters;

a type of object that the first method returns; and

a plurality of exceptions that the first method may throw in response to a fault condition.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the first method is utilized to generate a response to the first message.