Best Way to Expose our JAVA API as web service

we have develop an API and now, we want these API available as web services. the API abstracts the developer from database connection and the developer has to only concern himself of the object model. our problem with this API is that if we distribute this to our co-developers, their applications will be connecting directly to our database. but if we have this as a webservice, the connections to the databse will be isolated between the host that's running the webservice and the database.
what's the best way to move these API/objects to webservices? what are our options?
thanks,

You can pretty much put anything you want into a web service. But remember they are designed for network/internet calls so it might make sense to bulk wrap your API calls. Due to the large amount of XML that is required by a web service if your API is large and you will have many webservices you probably want to get a tool that can generate this for you.

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