It's easy to create a web service from a JavaBean. This SOAP web services bottom-up approach example in Java using Eclipse and Apache Axis will prove it.

Learn how to use Java SE's JAX-WS API to create a SOAP-based units-conversion Web service.

In Part One of the hands-on Web services tutorial we introduced the basic concepts behind web services, including SOAP and WSDL. We showed how to develop a simple Web Service in under 30 minutes, and ...

This article first introduces Java SE’s SAAJ API for working with SOAP-based Web services at a lower level. It then discusses how to create a JAX-WS handler to log the flow of SOAP messages.

Developers who still use Spring Web Services 2.4.3.RELEASE will not have problems using Java 11. This version just uses a slightly older version of the SOAP API (1.3.8).