Interacting with the Java EE container in WAS

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:

Tasks

• Use the application server administrative console to define web services to WAS. 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 WAS, as described in Tracing and logging WSIF.

• Use WSIF providers to access Java EE services. For example, use the EJB provider to access the 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.

Linking a WSIF service to the underlying implementation of the service

Developing a WSIF service

Use complex types

Running WSIF as a client