Webservice option is missing in my eclipse IDE

Question

I am working on Eclipse IDE and now I am planning to create a simple project to create a web-service program. But there is no option in my eclpise that helps me to create a web-service.

Here is the details that I get when I did Eclipse --> Help --> About Eclipse Platform :

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.8.1
Build id: debbuild

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Visit http://www.eclipse.org/platform

This product includes software developed by the
Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/

When I did Project --> New --> Other --> Web Services --> then I have only 2 options:

- Ant Files 
- WSDL Files

I am looking for an option called Web Service to create a new web service but that option is missing i my eclipse.

I don't want to download a new eclipse, so I thought of downloading any missing plugins in my eclipse.

i have gone through this post --> Eclipse: Web Services Option is missing but the answer doesn't say what exact plugin I need to setup to fix my issue. One of the comments in above post says to follow like this You can do a help->install new software and install WST components. But when I searched for WST Components I did not get any results.

Can someone please help me how can I install required plugin for my eclipse.

Answer 1

You can do that through Help -> Install new Software -> Select you current eclipse version on the drop down field -> Go to the category 'Web, XML, Java EE and OSGi Enterprise Development' and pick there all you need

If you want to create java web services, the following selections could be useful:

• JAX-WS DOM Tools
• JAX-WS Tools
• JSF Tools
• WAR Products
• WST Server Adapters

Kind regards and sorry for my former mistaken answer!