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.war file

WAR file (or Web application Archive) is a JAR file used to distribute a collection of Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, Java classes, XML files, tag libraries, static Web pages (HTML and related files) and other resources that together constitute a Web application.

API

Application Program Interface is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.

CXF

Apache CXF is a fully featured Web service framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or

CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML based protocol used for exchange of information in a distributed environment as part of the web service utilities.

WSDL

Web Service Definition Language, defines XML grammar for describing network services as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages.