Interacting with the Java EE container in WebSphere Application Server

How, and to what extent, WSIF interacts with the Java EE container provided in WebSphere Application Server.

We can interact with a container in any of the following ways:

• Use the application server administrative console to define web services to WebSphere Application Server. This task is described in Use WSIF to bind a JNDI reference to a web service. As part of the definition of a service, the administrator might define a "preferred port".

• Use the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) to make log and trace calls to the JRAS services in WebSphere Application Server, as described in Tracing and logging WSIF.

• Use WSIF providers to access JEE services. For example, use the EJB provider to access the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) and make calls to remote enterprise beans.

• Use WSIF to wrap the use of container services so that, when WSIF is run in an unmanaged (thin) environment, the operation can succeed.

Related tasks

Linking a WSIF service to the underlying implementation of the service

Develop a WSIF service

Use complex types

Running WSIF as a client