System and method for component based web services development

A web services development platform comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive a web service component arranged on a design surface of the web services development platform to implement a web service for a computer application, the web service component including predefined code to support a plurality of methods for the web service;
• display a plurality of predefined properties associated with the web service component on an object viewer of the web services development platform;
• receive an input via the object viewer configuring the web service component by enabling one or more predefined allowed actions properties from among the plurality of properties, each of the predefined allowed actions properties corresponding to a method from among the plurality of methods for the web service;
• and
• configure, at a design time, the web service component based on, at least in part, the selected one or more predefined allowed actions properties to enable the first web service component to process incoming requests at runtime according to the enabled ones of the predefined allowed actions properties for the first web service component.