There is quite a bit of web service support is the IBM WTP contribution, but I would encourage you guys to have a look at how Visual Studio.NET (dare I say it?) handles web services. This is all you have to do to connect your app to a web service, and its a million times easier than anything in the java world:
1. Right click on references and click add Web Reference…
2. Type in URL to the WSDL
3. Wait a second or two as classes are generated
and thats it, you can then code against very nice generated proxy classes. This leaves Sun’s web service pack for dead. It literally takes less than 30 seconds, and when I want to quickly test a java web service, I always use VS.NET because it is a shit load easier.
Similarly to create a web service all you have to do is create a web project, then add a .asmx file, code the methods and annotate them as [WebMethod] and they are magically exposed as a web service, and proxies and WSDLs are all magically generated behind the scenes.
This is the kind of level that java IDEs must get to before they can compete with VS.NET