Creating a web service from an annotated EJB bean by publishing to a server

After annotating an EJB bean, you can generate a web service application by publishing the application project of the bean directly to a server. When your web service is generated, no WSDL file is created in your project.

Before you begin

Prerequisites:

About this task

To create a web service from an annotated EJB bean:

Procedure

  1. Open the Servers view, if it is not already open, by clicking Window > Show View > Servers in the menu bar.
  2. If the application project that contains your EJB bean has not been published to a server:
    1. In the Servers view, right-click the server where you want to publish your application.
    2. In the menu, click Add and Remove Projects.
    3. In the Add and Remove Projects window, from the Available projects list, select the application project that contains your EJB bean.
    4. Click Add; then click Finish.
  3. If you haven't specified a preference for automatically publishing to local servers, right-click the server where you want to publish your application and click Publish.

Results

Your EJB bean is published as a web service on the server. JAXB classes are generated and packaged into the application at the point of publication.

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