A method for providing a web service may include generating an XML-based schema based on a service description of said web service, which generated XML-based schema defines XML-based messages to be interpreted by the respective web service, generating a binary XML processor code for encoding and decoding said XML-based messages based on the generated XML based schema, transforming said service description of said web service into a procedure skeleton code comprising one or more skeleton procedures each becoming an application procedure by implementing an application logic for the respective skeleton procedure, and generating a dispatcher code based on the service description, said dispatcher code configured to interpret a byte stream produced by said binary XML processor code to invoke one of the implemented application procedures. This provides an innovative approach to generate source code for developing XML-based web services for small embedded devices with constraint resources.