2 Replies Latest reply on Jul 30, 2012 3:42 PM by ingvarwolf

Is it possible to create JBoss web service without EJB?

ingvarwolf Jul 30, 2012 2:29 PM

Hello,

I have a question regarding webservice creation.

I have an EJB which has a lot of methods that use heavy objects as a parameters. I tried to create a webservice from the EJB but found that I have also to change all classes that define the methods parameters. I cannot completely recreate these classes. So, I decided to create a web service class which will have methods with simple-type parameters. This web service will create correct parameters and call EJB methods.

I tried to create a simple web service adding @WebService annotation to the class and @WebMethod to its methods but I cannot deploy this web service to JBoss. There are no error but my web service is not displayed in JMX console.

So, the question is - is it possible to create and deploy a simple web service based on POJO, not an EJB? If yes, then how?

I am using JBoss 4.2.3.GA with default configuration.

Sincerely,

Igor Urdenko

1. Re: Is it possible to create JBoss web service without EJB?

peterj Jul 30, 2012 2:39 PM (in response to ingvarwolf)

Yes you can. Just package the web service in a WAR and deploy. Here's a simple class for a hello web service:

package my.web.service;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
 
@WebService()
public class Hello {
  @WebMethod()
  public String hello(String name) {
    return "Hello " + name;
  }
}

and here is the web.xml for it:

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
  version="2.5"
>
 
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Hello</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>my.web.service.Hello</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
 
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Hello</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

2. Re: Is it possible to create JBoss web service without EJB?

ingvarwolf Jul 30, 2012 3:42 PM (in response to peterj)

Thank you!
Where was my head?! I completely forgot about WAR and was dealing with JAR...
Thank you very much.
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