Exposing an EJB as web service is just a matter of a few annotations.
This example exposes an ejb as standard SOAP web services. It uses default JAX-WS 2.1.6, which is part of the JDK1.6 distribution now.
It has two approaches:
1. Define a service interface and apply the @WebService on the interface. All the public methods would be exposed as web services.
2. Apply the @WebService to the implementation class directly, without an service interface. If you don't want to expose a public method in the class, apply @WebMethod(exclude=true) to the method.
here's the ejb3.1 implementation class StudentDAOImp after the "find" method exposed as a web service:
package com.jxee.ejb.student;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.Query;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import com.jxee.ejb.usr.UserDAOImp;
import com.jxee.model.student.Student;
/**
* Rules of usage of @javax.jws.WebService
*
* If the @WebService annotation of an service implementation class references
* a SEI(Service Endpoint Interface), the implementation class must not have
* any @WebMethod annotations.
*
* All public methods for an SEI are considered exposed methods regardless of
* whether the @WebMethod annotation is specified or not.
*
* It is incorrect to have an @WebMethod annotation on an SEI that contains the
* exclude attribute.
*
* For an implementation class that does not reference an SEI, if the @WebMethod
* annotation is specified with a value of exclude=true, that method is not exposed.
*
* If the @WebMethod annotation is not specified, all public methods are exposed
* including the inherited methods, except for that inherited from java.lang.Object.
*/
@Stateless
@WebService
public class StudentDAOImp implements StudentDAO {
private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(UserDAOImp.class);
@PersistenceContext(unitName="punit.projee6")
private EntityManager em;
@WebMethod
public List<Student> find(@WebParam(name="name") String nameFilter,
@WebParam(name="max") int max) {
String pattern = nameFilter != null ? "%" + nameFilter + "%" : "%";
String sql = "select s from Student s where s.name like :pattern";
Query q = em.createQuery(sql);
q.setParameter("pattern", pattern);
q.setFirstResult(0);
q.setMaxResults(max);
return q.getResultList();
}
@WebMethod(exclude=true)
public void add(Student stu) {
log.debug("adding new student: " + stu);
if(stu.getId() != null) {
// set null to avoid exception "org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist"
stu.setId(null);
}
em.persist(stu);
}
@WebMethod(exclude=true)
public void update(Student stu) {
log.debug("updating student: " + stu);
em.merge(stu);
}
@WebMethod(exclude=true)
public void delete(Student stu) {
Student todel = em.find(Student.class, stu.getId());
log.debug("student loaded to delete: " + todel);
em.remove(todel);
}
}
Since web services are normally deployed as web applications, The wsdl url of the deployed web service has this pattern: http://server:port/context/service?wsdl
JBoss and Glassfish provide admin screens to display the wsdl url. In JBoss 6.1, the deployed web services can be found in this screen:
http://localhost:8180/jbossws/services
you can click the endpoint address links of the services to view its wsdl. The StudentDAOImp service has this url for its wsdl:
http://localhost:8180/ProJee6/StudentDAOImp?wsdl
Here's the screen shot of JBoss web services screen: