The Basics

Enunciate is an engine for dramatically enhancing your Java Web service API.

It's simple. You develop your Web service API using standard Java technologies and attach Enunciate to your build process. Suddenly, your Web service API is boasting some pretty impressive features:

Notice that the runtime of your application isn't affected. Enunciate is primarily a build-time tool; it's intent is to "get out of the way" so Jersey or Metro or CXF or JBoss-WS can do their job processing your Web service requests. Of course, if you'd like to take advantage of Enunciate's support for your runtime container, you may enjoy some other features.

Some Use Cases

Consider some of these successful applications of Enunciate:

Getting Started

You may want to start with the getting started guide, which will walk you through the development of a basic Web service API. To integrate Enunciate into your existing project, take a look at the ways to attach Enunciate to your build process and take note of this document if you only want to leverage Enunciate's documentation and client-side library capabilities.

If you're a "show me" kind of a learner, Enunciate has some example applications that you can check out of SVN that are run and validated as part of the Enunciate release process. You can also browse some tutorials for integrating Enunciate with your favorite framework.

Once you've got some momentum, you'll probably find the user guide and module documentation useful to refer to Enunciate's configuration options. And if you get stuck, check out the FAQ or post your question to the mailing lists. And if you need some extra help, consider asking about commercial support.

About

Enunciate is an open-source project, licenced under the Apache License, version 2.0. It was designed and built by Ryan Heaton, working for familysearch.org. Comments, enhancements or bug fixes to the project are welcome.