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.

Prerequisites:

• For an EJB bean in your workspace, you have already specified Web services annotations, including at least the @WebService and @Stateless annotations. If there are validation errors or warnings in the Java™ editor, you should address these to prevent potential problems at run time.

• You have created the router modules for the Web service.

• You have already created a server in your workspace.

To create a Web service from an annotated EJB bean:

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.

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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