The GAR (Grid ARchive) file is a single file which contains all the files and information that the container needs to deploy a service. See the Java WS Core Developer's Guide for details.

It is an XML-based configuration file used to populate the container registry accessible via the JNDI API. See in the Java WS Core Developer's Guide] for details.

In Java WS Core, resources are managed and discovered via ResourceHome implementations. The ResourceHome implementations can also be responsible for creating new resources, performing operations on a set of resources at a time, etc. ResourceHomes are configured in JNDI and are associated with a particular web service.

Axis server-side WSDD configuration file. It contains information about the services, the type mappings and various handlers.

WSDL is an XML document for describing Web services. Standardized binding conventions define how to use WSDL in conjunction with SOAP and other messaging substrates. WSDL interfaces can be compiled to generate proxy code that constructs messages and manages communications on behalf of the client application. The proxy automatically maps the XML message structures into native language objects that can be directly manipulated by the application. The proxy frees the developer from having to understand and manipulate XML. See the WSDL 1.1 specification for details.