I wrote 2 webservices, one with Jax-WS and one with Jax-RPC. They just return a String.
I stress-tested both with jMeter and, strangely, thereby Jax-RPC was a bit f
java.rmi.Remote interface concept. And uses RemoteException i.e. all remote methods in a service endpoint interface (SEI) throw the standard java.rmi.RemoteException. JAX-RPC 2.0 was renamed JAX-WS 2.0. @WebService, @SOAPBinding, @WebMethod, @WebParam, @WebServiceClient and so on.