This document provides an overview of a course on developing SOAP and REST web services in Java. The prerequisites include strong Java skills and experience with XML and Java EE standards. The learning objectives are to understand web services architectures and build Java web services using JAX-WS and JAX-RS that incorporate data binding with JAXB and support SOAP, REST, and WSDL. The course covers topics such as SOAP, WSDL, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAXB, exception handling, and best practices for developing interoperable web services. Support is provided for servers like Tomcat and IDEs like Eclipse.