WebLogic Web Services Reference

      

JWS Annotation Reference

The following sections provide reference documentation about the WebLogic-specific JWS annotations:

 


Overview of JWS Annotation Tags

The WebLogic Web Services programming model uses the JDK 5.0 metadata annotations feature (specified by JSR-175). In this programming model, you create an annotated Java file and then use Ant tasks to compile the file into the Java source code and generate all the associated artifacts.

The Java Web Service (JWS) annotated file is the core of your Web Service. It contains the Java code that determines how your Web Service behaves. A JWS file is an ordinary Java class file that uses annotations to specify the shape and characteristics of the Web Service.

The JWS annotations that are supported vary based on whether you are creating a JAX-WS or JAX-RPC Web Service. The following table compares the Web Service annotation support for JAX-WS and JAX-RPC.

Table 3-1 Web Service Annotation Support
Annotations JAX-WS JAX-RPC
Web Services Metadata Annotations (JSR-181) v v
JAX-WS Annotations (JSR-224) v
JAXB Annotations (JSR-222) v
Common Annotations (JSR-250) v
WebLogic-specific Annotations v v

You can target a JWS annotation at either the class-, method- or parameter-level in a JWS file. Some annotations can be targeted at more than one level, such as @SecurityRoles that can be targeted at both the class and method level.

The following example shows a simple JWS file that uses standard JSR-181, shown in bold:

package examples.webservices.complex;
// Import the standard JWS annotation interfaces
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebResult;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
// Import the BasicStruct JavaBean
import examples.webservices.complex.BasicStruct;
// Standard JWS annotation that specifies that the portType name of the Web

// Service is "ComplexPortType", its public service name is "ComplexService",
// and the targetNamespace used in the generated WSDL is "http://example.org"
@WebService(serviceName="ComplexService", name="ComplexPortType",

targetNamespace="http://example.org")
// Standard JWS annotation that specifies this is a document-literal-wrapped

// Web Service
@SOAPBinding(style=SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT,

use=SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
parameterStyle=SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)
/**

* This JWS file forms the basis of a WebLogic Web Service. The Web Services
* has two public operations:
*
* - echoInt(int)
* - echoComplexType(BasicStruct)
*
* The Web Service is defined as a "document-literal" service, which means
* that the SOAP messages have a single part referencing an XML Schema element
* that defines the entire body.
*
*/
public class ComplexImpl {
  // Standard JWS annotation that specifies that the method should be exposed

// as a public operation. Because the annotation does not include the
// member-value "operationName", the public name of the operation is the
// same as the method name: echoInt.
//
// The WebResult annotation specifies that the name of the result of the
// operation in the generated WSDL is "IntegerOutput", rather than the
// default name "return". The WebParam annotation specifies that the input
// parameter name in the WSDL file is "IntegerInput" rather than the Java
// name of the parameter, "input".
  @WebMethod()

@WebResult(name="IntegerOutput",
targetNamespace="http://example.org/complex")
public int echoInt(
@WebParam(name="IntegerInput",
targetNamespace="http://example.org/complex")
int input)
{
System.out.println("echoInt '" + input + "' to you too!");
return input;
}
  // Standard JWS annotation to expose method "echoStruct" as a public operation

// called "echoComplexType"
// The WebResult annotation specifies that the name of the result of the
// operation in the generated WSDL is "EchoStructReturnMessage",
// rather than the default name "return".
  @WebMethod(operationName="echoComplexType")

@WebResult(name="EchoStructReturnMessage",
targetNamespace="http://example.org/complex")
public BasicStruct echoStruct(BasicStruct struct)
{
System.out.println("echoComplexType called");
return struct;
}
}

The following sections describe the JWS annotations that are supported.

 


Web Services Metadata Annotations (JSR-181)

The following table summarizes the standard JSR-181 annotations that you can use in your JWS file to specify the shape and behavior of your Web Service. Each of these annotations are available with the javax.jws or javax.jws.soap package and are described in more detail in the Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform (JSR-181) specification.

Table 3-2 Standard JSR-181 JWS Annotations
This annotation . . . Specifies . . .
javax.jws.WebService At the class level that the JWS file implements a Web Service. For more information, see “Specifying that the JWS File Implements a Web Service (@WebService Annotation)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.WebMethod That a method of the JWS file should be exposed as a public operation of the Web Service. For more information, see “Specifying That a JWS Method Be Exposed as a Public Operation (@WebMethod and @OneWay Annotations)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.OneWay That an operation not return a value to the calling application. For more information, see “Specifying That a JWS Method Be Exposed as a Public Operation (@WebMethod and @OneWay Annotations)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.WebParam The mapping between operation input parameters of the Web Service and elements of the generated WSDL file, as well as specify the behavior of the parameter. For more information, see “Customizing the Mapping Between Operation Parameters and WSDL Parts (@WebParam Annotation)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.WebResult The mapping between the Web Service operation return value and the corresponding element of the generated WSDL file. For more information, see “Customizing the Mapping Between the Operation Return Value and a WSDL Element (@WebResult Annotation)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.HandlerChain An external handler chain. For more information, see “Creating and Using SOAP Message Handlers” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.
javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding At the class level the SOAP bindings of the Web Service (such as, document-encoded or document-literal-wrapped). For more information, see “Specifying the Mapping of the Web Service to the SOAP Message Protocol (@SOAPBinding Annotation)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.

 


JAX-WS Annotations (JSR-224)

The JAX-WS JWS annotations are relevant to JAX-WS Web Services only. This section does not apply to JAX-RPC Web Services.

The following table summarizes the JAX-WS (JSR-224) annotations that you can use in your JWS file to specify the shape and behavior of your Web Service. Each of these annotations are available with the javax.xml.ws package and are described in more detail in JAX-WS 2.1 Annotations,

Table 3-3 JAX-WS (JSR-244) Annotations
This annotation . . . Specifies . . .
javax.xml.ws.Action Whether to allow an explicit association of a WS-Addressing Action message addressing property with input, output, and fault messages of the mapped WSDL operation.
javax.xml.ws.BindingType The binding to use for a Web Service implementation class. For more information, see “Specifying the Binding Type to Use for an Endpoint (@BindingType Annotation)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.
javax.xml.ws.FaultAction Whether to allow an explicit association of a WS-Addressing Action message addressing property with the fault messages of the WSDL operation mapped from the exception class. The @FaultAction annotation is used inside an @Action annotation.
javax.xml.ws.RequestWrapper The request wrapper bean to be used at runtime for the methods in the endpoint interface.
javax.xml.ws.ResponseWrapper The response wrapper bean to be used at runtime for the methods in the endpoint interface.
javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode Whether a provider implementation works with the entire protocol message or with the payload only.
javax.xml.ws.WebEndpoint The getPortName() methods of a generated service interface.
javax.xml.ws.WebFault Service-specific exception classes to customize to the local and namespace name of the fault element and the name of the fault bean.
javax.xml.ws.WebServiceClient A generated service interface.
javax.xml.ws.WebServiceProvider A provider implementation class.
javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef A reference to a Web Service. For more information, see “Defining a Reference to a Web Service Using the @WebServiceRef Annotation” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.

 


JAXB Annotations (JSR-222)

The JAXB JWS annotations are relevant to JAX-WS Web Services only. This section does not apply to JAX-RPC Web Services.

The JAXB (JSR-222) specification defines the JAXB annotations that you can use in your JWS file to specify the shape and behavior of your Web Service. The JAXB annotations are summarized in the following table. Each of these annotations are available with the javax.xml.bind.annotation package and are described in more detail in “Customizing Java-to-XML Schema Mapping Using JAXB Annotations” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS or the JAXB (JSR-222) specification.

Table 3-4 JAXB Mapping Annotations (JSR-222)
This annotation . . . Specifies . . .
java.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType Whether fields or properties are serialized by default. For more information, see “Specifying Default Serialization (@XmlAccessorType)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.
java.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement That a property contained in a class be mapped to a local element in the XML schema complex type to which the containing class is mapped. For more information, see “Mapping Properties to Local Elements (@XmlElement)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.
java.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement That a top-level class be mapped to a global element in the XML schema that is used by the WSDL of the Web Service. For more information, see “Mapping a Top-level Class to a Global Element (@XmlRootElement)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.
java.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso The other classes to bind when binding the current class. For more information, see “Binding a Set of Classes (@XmlSeeAlso)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.
java.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType That a class or enum type be mapped to an XML Schema type. For more information, see “Mapping a Value Class to a Schema Type (@XmlType)” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS.

 


Common Annotations (JSR-250)

The JAXB JWS annotations are relevant to JAX-WS Web Services only. This section does not apply to JAX-RPC Web Services.

The following table summarizes the JAX-WS (JSR-224) annotations that you can use in your JWS file to specify the shape and behavior of your Web Service.

Each of these annotations are available with the javax.annotation package and are described in more detail in the Common Annotations for the Java Platform (JSR-250) specification.

Table 3-5 Common Annotations (JSR-250)
This annotation . . . Specifies . . .
javax.annotation.Resource A resource that is needed by the application. This annotation may be applied to an application component class or to fields or methods of the component class.
javax.annotation.PostConstruct A method that needs to be executed after dependency injection is done to perform initialization.
javax.annotation.PreDestroy A callback notification om a method to signal that the instance is in the process of being removed by the container.

 


WebLogic-specific Annotations

WebLogic Web Services define a set of JWS annotations that you can use to specify behavior and features in addition to the standard JSR-181 JWS annotations. The following table summarizes the WebLogic-specific annotations and whether they are supported for JAX-WS or JAX-RPC. (The majority of annotations are supported for JAX-RPC only.) Each annotation is described in more detail in the sections that follow.

Table 3-6 WebLogic-specific Annotations
This annotation . . . Specifies . . . JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, or Both?
weblogic.jws.AsyncFailure The method that handles a potential failure when the main JWS file invokes an operation of another Web Service asynchronously. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.AsyncResponse The method that handles the response when the main JWS file invokes an operation of another Web Service asynchronously. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Binding Whether the Web Service uses version 1.1 or 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) implementation when accepting or sending SOAP messages. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.BufferQueue The JNDI name of the JMS queue to which WebLogic Server stores:

  • Buffered Web Service operation invocation.

  • Reliable Web Service operation invocation.
JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Callback That the annotated variable is a callback, which means that you can use the variable to send callback events back to the client Web Service that invoked an operation of the target Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.CallbackMethod The method in the client Web Service that handles the messages it receives from the callback Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.CallbackService That the JWS file is actually a Java interface that describes a callback Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Context That the annotated field provides access to the runtime context of the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Conversation That a method annotated with the @Conversation annotation can be invoked as part of a conversation between two WebLogic Web Services or a stand-alone Java client and a conversational Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Conversational That a JWS file implements a conversational Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.FileStore That the Web Service does not use the default WebLogic Server default filestore to store internal state information, such as conversational state, but rather uses one specified by the programmer. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.MessageBuffer Which public methods of a JWS are buffered. If specified at the class-level, then all public methods are buffered; if you want only a subset of the methods to be buffered, specify the annotation at the appropriate method-level. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Policies An array of @weblogic.jws.Policy annotations. Both
weblogic.jws.Policy That a WS-Policy file, which contains information about digital signatures, encryption, or Web Service reliable messaging, should be applied to the request or response SOAP messages. Both
weblogic.jws.ReliabilityBuffer Reliable messaging properties for an operation of a reliable Web Service, such as the number of times WebLogic Server should attempt to deliver the message from the JMS queue to the Web Service implementation, and the amount of time that the server should wait in between retries. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.ReliabilityErrorHandler The method that handles the error that results when a client Web Service invokes a reliable Web Service, but the client does not receive an acknowledgement that the reliable Web Service actually received the message. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.ServiceClient That the annotated variable in the JWS file is a stub used to invoke another WebLogic Web Service when using the following features:

  • Web Service reliable messaging

  • Asynchronous request-response

  • Conversations
JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.StreamAttachments That the WebLogic Web Services runtime use streaming APIs when reading the parameters of all methods of the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Transactional Whether the annotated operation, or all the operations of the JWS file when the annotation is specified at the class-level, runs or run inside of a transaction. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.Types A comma-separated list of fully qualified Java class names of the alternative data types for a return type or parameter. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding The XML Schema data type to which a wildcard class, such as javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement or org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject, binds. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WildcardBindings An array of @weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding annotations. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport The context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the HTTP transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WLHttpsTransport The context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the HTTPS transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WLJmsTransport The context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the JMS transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.WSDL Whether to expose the WSDL of a deployed WebLogic Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.CallbackRolesAllowed An array of @SecurityRole JWS annotations that list the roles that are allowed to invoke the callback methods of the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed Whether to enable basic authentication for a Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.RolesReferenced The list of role names that reference actual roles that are allowed to invoke the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.RunAs The role and user identity which actually runs the Web Service in WebLogic Server. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole The name of a role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoleRef A role name reference that links to an already-specified role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.UserDataConstraint Whether the client is required to use the HTTPS transport when invoking the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.WssConfiguration The name of the Web Service security configuration you want the Web Service to use. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding The mapping of a Web Service operation onto the SOAP message protocol. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoles (deprecated) The roles that are allowed to access the operations of the Web Service. JAX-RPC
weblogic.jws.security.SecurityIdentity (deprecated) The identity assumed by the Web Service when it is invoked. JAX-RPC

 

weblogic.jws.AsyncFailure

Description

Target: Method

Specifies the method that handles a potential failure when the main JWS file invokes an operation of another Web Service asynchronously.

When you invoke, from within a JWS file, a Web Service operation asynchronously, the response (or exception, in the case of a failure) does not return immediately after the operation invocation, but rather, at some later point in time. Because the operation invocation did not wait for a response, a separate method in the JWS file must handle the response when it does finally return; similarly, another method must handle a potential failure. Use the @AsyncFailure annotation to specify the method in the JWS file that will handle the potential failure of an asynchronous operation invocation.

The @AsyncFailure annotation takes two parameters: the name of the stub for the Web Service you are invoking and the name of the operation that you are invoking asynchronously. The stub is the one that has been annotation with the @ServiceClient annotation.

The method that handles the asynchronous failure must follow these guidelines:

Within the method itself you can get more information about the method failure from the context, and query the specific type of exception and act accordingly.

Typically, you always use the @AsyncFailure annotation to explicitly specify the method that handles asynchronous operation failures. The only time you would not use this annotation is if you want a single method to handle failures for two or more stubs that invoke different Web Services. In this case, although the stubs connect to different Web Services, each Web Service must have a similarly named method, because the Web Services runtime relies on the name of the method (onMethodNameAsyncFailure) to determine how to handle the asynchronous failure, rather than the annotation. However, if you always want a one-to-one correspondence between a stub and the method that handles an asynchronous failure from one of the operations, then Oracle recommends that you explicitly use @AsyncFailure.

See “Invoking a Web Service Using Asynchronous Request-Response” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

Attributes

Table B-1 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.AsyncFailure JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
target The name of the stub of the Web Service for which you want to invoke an operation asynchronously. The stub is the one that has been annotated with the @ServiceClient field-level annotation. String Yes
operation The name of the operation that you want to invoke asynchronously. This is the actual name of the operation, as it appears in the WSDL file. When you invoke this operation in the main code of the JWS file, you add Async to its name. For example, if set operation="getQuote", then in the JWS file you invoke it asynchronously as follows:
 port.getQuoteAsync (apc, symbol);
String Yes

Example

The following sample snippet shows how to use the @AsyncFailure annotation in a JWS file that invokes the operation of another Web Service asynchronously; only the relevant Java code is included:

package examples.webservices.async_req_res;
...
public class StockQuoteClientImpl {
  @ServiceClient(wsdlLocation="http://localhost:7001/async/StockQuote?WSDL",

serviceName="StockQuoteService", portName="StockQuote")
private StockQuotePortType port;
  @WebMethodpublic void getQuote (String symbol) {
    AsyncPreCallContext apc = AsyncCallContextFactory.getAsyncPreCallContext();

apc.setProperty("symbol", symbol);
    try {

port.getQuoteAsync(apc, symbol );
System.out.println("in getQuote method of StockQuoteClient WS");
}
catch (RemoteException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
  }
...
  @AsyncFailure(target="port", operation="getQuote")

public void onGetQuoteAsyncFailure(AsyncPostCallContext apc, Throwable e) {
System.out.println("-------------------");
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("-------------------");
}
}

The example shows a stub called port, used to invoke the Web Service located at http://localhost:7001/async/StockQuote. The getQuote operation is invoked asynchronously, and any exception from this invocation is handled by the onGetQuoteAsyncFailure method, as specified by the @AsyncFailure annotation.

 

weblogic.jws.AsyncResponse

Description

Target: Method

Specifies the method that handles the response when the main JWS file invokes an operation of another Web Service asynchronously.

When you invoke, from within a JWS file, a Web Service operation asynchronously, the response does not return immediately after the operation invocation, but rather, at some later point in time. Because the operation invocation did not wait for a response, a separate method in the JWS file must handle the response when it does finally return. Use the @AsyncResponse annotation to specify the method in the JWS file that will handle the response of an asynchronous operation invocation.

The @AsyncResponse annotation takes two parameters: the name of the stub for the Web Service you are invoking and the name of the operation that you are invoking asynchronously. The stub is the one that has been annotation with the @ServiceClient annotation.

The method that handles the asynchronous response must follow these guidelines:

Within the asynchronous-response method itself you add the code to handle the response. You can also get more information about the method invocation from the context.

Typically, you always use the @AsyncResponse annotation to explicitly specify the method that handles asynchronous operation responses. The only time you would not use this annotation is if you want a single method to handle the response for two or more stubs that invoke different Web Services. In this case, although the stubs connect to different Web Services, each Web Service must have a similarly named method, because the Web Services runtime relies on the name of the method (onMethodNameAsyncResponse) to determine how to handle the asynchronous response, rather than the annotation. However, if you always want a one-to-one correspondence between a stub and the method that handles an asynchronous response from one of the operations, then Oracle recommends that you explicitly use @AsyncResponse.

See “Invoking a Web Service Using Asynchronous Request-Response” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

Attributes

Table B-2 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.AsyncResponse JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
target The name of the stub of the Web Service for which you want to invoke an operation asynchronously. The stub is the one that has been annotated with the @ServiceClient field-level annotation. String Yes
operation The name of the operation that you want to invoke asynchronously. This is the actual name of the operation, as it appears in the WSDL file. When you invoke this operation in the main code of the JWS file, you add Async to its name. For example, if set operation="getQuote", then in the JWS file you invoke it asynchronously as follows:
 port.getQuoteAsync (apc, symbol);
String Yes

Example

The following sample snippet shows how to use the @AsyncResponse annotation in a JWS file that invokes the operation of another Web Service asynchronously; only the relevant Java code is included:

package examples.webservices.async_req_res;
...
public class StockQuoteClientImpl {
  @ServiceClient(wsdlLocation="http://localhost:7001/async/StockQuote?WSDL",

serviceName="StockQuoteService", portName="StockQuote")
private StockQuotePortType port;
  @WebMethodpublic void getQuote (String symbol) {
    AsyncPreCallContext apc = AsyncCallContextFactory.getAsyncPreCallContext();

apc.setProperty("symbol", symbol);
    try {

port.getQuoteAsync(apc, symbol );
System.out.println("in getQuote method of StockQuoteClient WS");
}
catch (RemoteException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
  }
...
  @AsyncResponse(target="port", operation="getQuote")

public void onGetQuoteAsyncResponse(AsyncPostCallContext apc, int quote) {
System.out.println("-------------------");
System.out.println("Got quote " + quote );
System.out.println("-------------------");
}
}

The example shows a stub called port, used to invoke the Web Service located at http://localhost:7001/async/StockQuote. The getQuote operation is invoked asynchronously, and the response from this invocation is handled by the onGetQuoteAsyncResponse method, as specified by the @AsyncResponse annotation.

 

weblogic.jws.Binding

Description

Target: Class

Whether the Web Service uses version 1.1 or 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) implementation when accepting or sending SOAP messages. By default, WebLogic Web Services use SOAP 1.1.

Attributes

Table B-3 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Binding JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Specifies the version of SOAP used in the request and response SOAP messages when the Web Service is invoked. Valid values for this attribute are:

  • Type.SOAP11

  • Type.SOAP12
The default value is Type.SOAP11.
enum No

Example

The following example shows how to specify SOAP 1.2; only the relevant code is shown:

package examples.webservices.soap12;
...
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import weblogic.jws.Binding;
@WebService(name="SOAP12PortType",

serviceName="SOAP12Service",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@Binding(Binding.Type.SOAP12)
public class SOAP12Impl {
  @WebMethod()

public String sayHello(String message) {
...
  }
}

 

weblogic.jws.BufferQueue

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the JNDI name of the JMS queue to which WebLogic Server stores:

When used with buffered Web Services, you use this annotation in conjunction with @MessageBuffer, which specifies the methods of a JWS that are buffered. When used with reliable Web Services, you use this annotation in conjunction with @Policy, which specifies the reliable messaging WS-Policy file associated with the Web Service.

If you have enabled buffering or reliable messaging for a Web Service, but do not specify the @BuffereQueue annotation, WebLogic Server uses the default Web Services JMS queue (weblogic.wsee.DefaultQueue) to store buffered or reliable operation invocations. This JMS queue is also the default queue for the JMS transport features. It is assumed that you have already created this JMS queue if you intend on using it for any of these features.

See “Creating Buffered Web Services” and “Using Web Services Reliable Messaging” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples of creating buffered or reliable Web Services.

Attributes

Table B-4 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.BufferQueue JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
name The JNDI name of the JMS queue to which the buffered or reliable operation invocation is queued. String Yes

Example

The following example shows a code snippet from a JWS file in which the public operation is buffered and the JMS queue to which WebLogic Server queues the operation invocation is called my.buffere.queue; only the relevant Java code is shown:

package examples.webservices.buffered;
...
@WebService(name="BufferedPortType",

serviceName="BufferedService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@BufferQueue(name="my.buffer.queue")
public class BufferedImpl {
...
  @WebMethod()

@MessageBuffer(retryCount=10, retryDelay="10 seconds")
@Oneway()
public void sayHelloNoReturn(String message) {
System.out.println("sayHelloNoReturn: " + message);
}
}

 

weblogic.jws.Callback

Description

Target: Field

Specifies that the annotated variable is a callback, which means that you can use the variable to send callback events back to the client Web Service that invoked an operation of the target Web Service.

You specify the @Callback annotation in the target Web Service so that it can call back to the client Web Service. The data type of the annotated variable is the callback interface.

The callback feature works between two WebLogic Web Services. When you program the feature, however, you create the following three Java files:

See “Using Callbacks to Notify Clients of Events” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for additional overview and procedural information about programming callbacks.

The @Callback annotation does not have any attributes.

Example

The following example shows a very simple target Web Service in which a variable called callback is annotated with the @Callback annotation. The data type of the variable is CallbackInterface; this means a callback Web Service must exist with this name. After the variable is injected with the callback information, you can invoke the callback methods defined in CallbackInterface; in the example, the callback method is callbackOperation().

The text in bold shows the relevant code:

package examples.webservices.callback;
import weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport;

import weblogic.jws.Callback;
import javax.jws.WebService;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
@WebService(name="CallbackPortType",

serviceName="TargetService",
targetNamespace="http://examples.org/")
@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="callback",

serviceUri="TargetService",
portName="TargetServicePort")
public class TargetServiceImpl {
  @Callback

CallbackInterface callback;
  @WebMethod

public void targetOperation (String message) {
        callback.callbackOperation (message);
  }
}

 

weblogic.jws.CallbackMethod

Description

Target: Method

Specifies the method in the client Web Service that handles the messages it receives from the callback Web Service. Use the attributes to link the callback message handler methods in the client Web Service with the callback method in the callback interface.

The callback feature works between two WebLogic Web Services. When you program the feature, however, you create the following three Java files:

See “Using Callbacks to Notify Clients of Events” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for additional overview and procedural information about programming callbacks.

Attributes

Table B-5 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.CallbackMethod JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
operation Name of the callback method in the callback interface for which this method will handle callback messages. String Yes
target Name of the stub for which you want to receive callbacks. The stub is the one that has been annotated with the @ServiceClient field-level annotation. String Yes

Example

The following example shows a method of a client Web Service annotated with the @CallbackMethod annotation. The attributes show that a variable called port must have previously been injected with stub information and that the annotated method will handle messages received from a callback operation called callbackOperation().

  @CallbackMethod(target="port", operation="callbackOperation")

@CallbackRolesAllowed(@SecurityRole(role="engineer", mapToPrincipals="shackell"))
public void callbackHandler(String msg) {
        System.out.println (msg);
  }

 

weblogic.jws.CallbackService

Description

Target: Class

Specifies that the JWS file is actually a Java interface that describes a callback Web Service. This annotation is analogous to the @javax.jws.WebService, but specific to callbacks and with a reduced set of attributes.

The callback feature works between two WebLogic Web Services. When you program the feature, however, you create the following three Java files:

Use the @CallbackInterface annotation to specify that the Java file is a callback interface file.

When you program the callback interface, you specify one or more callback methods; as with standard non-callback Web Services, you annotate these methods with the @javax.jws.WebMethod annotation to specify that they are Web Service operations. However, contrary to non-callback methods, you never write the actual implementation code for these callback methods; rather, when you compile the client Web Service with the jwsc Ant task, the task automatically creates an implementation of the interface and packages it into a Web Service. This generated implementation specifies that the callback methods all do the same thing: send a message from the target Web Service that invokes the callback method back to the client Web Service.

See “Using Callbacks to Notify Clients of Events” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for additional overview and procedural information about programming callbacks.

Attributes

Table B-6 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.CallbackService JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
name Name of the callback Web Service. Maps to the <wsdl:portType> element in the WSDL file. Default value is the unqualified name of the Java class in the JWS file. String No
serviceName Service name of the callback Web Service. Maps to the <wsdl:service> element in the WSDL file. Default value is the unqualified name of the Java class in the JWS file, appended with the string Service. String No

Example

The following example shows a very simple callback interface. The resulting callback Web Service has one callback method, callbackOperation().

package examples.webservices.callback;
import weblogic.jws.CallbackService;
import javax.jws.Oneway;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
@CallbackService
public interface CallbackInterface {
  @WebMethod

@Oneway
public void callbackOperation (String msg);
}

 

weblogic.jws.Context

Description

Target: Field

Specifies that the annotated field provides access to the runtime context of the Web Service.

When a client application invokes a WebLogic Web Service that was implemented with a JWS file, WebLogic Server automatically creates a context that the Web Service can use to access, and sometimes change, runtime information about the service. Much of this information is related to conversations, such as whether the current conversation is finished, the current values of the conversational properties, changing conversational properties at runtime, and so on. Some of the information accessible via the context is more generic, such as the protocol that was used to invoke the Web Service (HTTP/S or JMS), the SOAP headers that were in the SOAP message request, and so on. The data type of the annotation field must be weblogic.wsee.jws.JwsContext, which is a WebLogic Web Service API that includes methods to query the context.

For additional information about using this annotation, see “Accessing Runtime Information about a Web Service Using JwsContext” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC.

This annotation does not have any attributes.

Example

The following snippet of a JWS file shows how to use the @Context annotation; only parts of the file are shown, with relevant code in bold:

...
import weblogic.jws.Context;
import weblogic.wsee.jws.JwsContext;

...
public class JwsContextImpl {
  @Context

private JwsContext ctx;
  @WebMethod()

public String getProtocol() {
...

 

weblogic.jws.Conversation

Description

Target: Method

Specifies that a method annotated with the @Conversation annotation can be invoked as part of a conversation between two WebLogic Web Services or a stand-alone Java client and a conversational Web Service.

The conversational Web Service typically specifies three methods, each annotated with the @Conversation annotation that correspond to the start, continue, and finish phases of a conversation. Use the @Conversational annotation to specify, at the class level, that a Web Service is conversational and to configure properties of the conversation, such as the maximum idle time.

If the conversation is between two Web Services, the client service uses the @ServiceClient annotation to specify the wsdl, service name, and port of the invoked conversational service. In both the service and stand-alone client cases, the client then invokes the start, continue, and finish methods in the appropriate order to conduct a conversation.The only additional requirement to make a Web Service conversational is that it implement java.io.Serializable.

See “Creating Conversational Web Services” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

Attributes

Table B-7 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Conversation JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Specifies the phase of a conversation that the annotated method implements. Possible values are:

  • Phase.START

    Specifies that the method starts a new conversation. A call to this method creates a new conversation ID and context, and resets its idle and age timer.

  • Phase.CONTINUE

    Specifies that the method is part of a conversation in progress. A call to this method resets the idle timer. This method must always be called after the start method and before the finish method.

  • Phase.FINISH

    Specifies that the method explicitly finishes a conversation in progress.

Default value is Phase.CONTINUE
enum No

Example

The following sample snippet shows a JWS file that contains three methods, start, middle, and finish) that are annotated with the @Conversation annotation to specify the start, continue, and finish phases, respectively, of a conversation.

...
public class ConversationalServiceImpl implements Serializable {
  @WebMethod

@Conversation (Conversation.Phase.START)
public String start() {
// Java code for starting a conversation goes here
}
  @WebMethod

@Conversation (Conversation.Phase.CONTINUE)
public String middle(String message) {
// Java code for continuing a conversation goes here
}
  @WebMethod

@Conversation (Conversation.Phase.FINISH)
public String finish(String message ) {
// Java code for finishing a conversation goes here
}
}

 

weblogic.jws.Conversational

Description

Target: Class

Specifies that a JWS file implements a conversational Web Service.

You are not required to use this annotation to specify that a Web Service is conversational; by simply annotating a single method with the @Conversation annotation, all the methods of the JWS file are automatically tagged as conversational. Use the class-level @Conversational annotation only if you want to change some of the conversational behavior or if you want to clearly show at the class level that the JWS if conversational.

If you do use the @Conversational annotation in your JWS file, you can specify it without any attributes if their default values suit your needs. However, if you want to change values such as the maximum amount of time that a conversation can remain idle, the maximum age of a conversation, and so on, specify the appropriate attribute.

See “Creating Conversational Web Services” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

Attributes

Table B-8 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Conversational JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
maxIdleTime Specifies the amount of time that a conversation can remain idle before it is finished by WebLogic Server. Activity is defined by a client Web Service executing one of the phases of the conversation. Valid values are a number and one of the following terms:

  • seconds

  • minutes

  • hours

  • days

  • years
For example, to specify a maximum idle time of ten minutes, specify the annotation as follows: @Conversational(maxIdleTime="10 minutes") If you specify a zero-length value (such as 0 seconds, or 0 minutes and so on), then the conversation never times out due to inactivity. Default value is 0 seconds.
String No
maxAge The amount of time that a conversation can remain active before it is finished by WebLogic Server. Valid values are a number and one of the following terms:

  • seconds

  • minutes

  • hours

  • days

  • years
For example, to specify a maximum age of three days, specify the annotation as follows: @Conversational(maxAge="3 days") Default value is 1 day.
String No
runAsStartUser Whether the continue and finish phases of an existing conversation are run as the user who started the conversation. Typically, the same user executes the start, continue, and finish methods of a conversation, so that changing the value of this attribute has no effect. However, if you set the singlePrincipal attribute to false, which allows users different from the user who initiated the conversation to execute the continue and finish phases of an existing conversation, then the runAsStartUser attribute specifies which user the methods are actually “run as”: the user who initiated the conversation or the different user who executes subsequent phases of the conversation. Valid values are true and false. Default value is false. boolean No
singlePrincipal Whether users other than the one who started a conversation are allowed to execute the continue and finish phases of the conversation. Typically, the same user executes all phases of a conversation. However, if you set this attribute to false, then other users can obtain the conversation ID of an existing conversation and use it to execute later phases of the conversation. Valid values are true and false. Default value is false. boolean No

Example

The following sample snippet shows how to specify that a JWS file implements a conversational Web Service. The maximum amount of time the conversation can be idle is ten minutes, and the maximum age of the conversation, regardless of activity, is one day. The continue and finish phases of the conversation can be executed by a user other than the one that started the conversation; if this happens, then the corresponding methods are run as the new user, not the original user.

package examples.webservices.conversation;
...
@Conversational(maxIdleTime="10 minutes",

maxAge="1 day",
runAsStartUser=false,
singlePrincipal=false )
public class ConversationalServiceImpl implements Serializable {
...

 

weblogic.jws.FileStore

Description

Target: Class

Specifies that the Web Service does not use the default WebLogic Server default filestore to store internal state information, such as conversational state, but rather uses one specified by the programmer. If you do not specify this JWS annotation in your JWS file, the Web Service uses the default filestore configured for WebLogic Server.

You can also use this JWS annotation for reliable Web Services to store internal state.

If you deploy the Web Service in a cluster, be sure you specify the logical name of the filestore so that the same name of the filestore can be used on all servers in the cluster

This annotation applies only to filestores, not to JDBC stores.

Attributes

Table B-9 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.FileStore JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
storeName Name of the filestore. String Yes

 

weblogic.jws.MessageBuffer

Description

Target: Class, Method

Specifies which public methods of a JWS are buffered. If specified at the class-level, then all public methods are buffered; if you want only a subset of the methods to be buffered, specify the annotation at the appropriate method-level.

When a client Web Service invokes a buffered operation of a different WebLogic Web Service, WebLogic Server (hosting the invoked Web Service) puts the invoke message on a JMS queue and the actual invoke is dealt with later on when the WebLogic Server delivers the message from the top of the JMS queue to the Web Service implementation. The client does not need to wait for a response, but rather, continues on with its execution. For this reason, buffered operations (without any additional asynchronous features) can only return void and must be marked with the @Oneway annotation. If you want to buffer an operation that returns a value, use asynchronous request-response from the invoking client Web Service. See “Invoking a Web Service Using Asynchronous Request-Response” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for more information.

Buffering works only between two Web Services in which one invokes the buffered operations of the other.

Use the optional attributes of @MessageBuffer to specify the number of times the JMS queue attempts to invoke the buffered Web Service operation until it is invoked successfully, and the amount of time between attempts.

Use the optional class-level @BufferQueue annotation to specify the JMS queue to which the invoke messages are queued. If you do not specify this annotation, the messages are queued to the default Web Service queue, weblogic.wsee.DefaultQueue.

See “Creating Buffered Web Services” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information and examples for using this annotation.

Attributes

Table B-10 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.MessageBuffer JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
retryCount Number of times that the JMS queue on the invoked WebLogic Server instance attempts to deliver the invoking message to the Web Service implementation until the operation is successfully invoked. Default value is 3. int No
retryDelay Specifies the amount of time that elapses between message delivery retry attempts. The retry attempts are between the invoke message on the JMS queue and delivery of the message to the Web Service implementation. Valid values are a number and one of the following terms:

  • seconds

  • minutes

  • hours

  • days

  • years
For example, to specify a retry delay of two days, specify:
@MessageBuffer(retryDelay="2 days")
Default value is 5 seconds.
String No

Example

The following example shows a code snippet from a JWS file in which the public operation sayHelloNoReturn is buffered and the JMS queue to which WebLogic Server queues the operation invocation is called my.buffere.queue. The WebLogic Server instance that hosts the invoked Web Service tries a maximum of 10 times to deliver the invoke message from the JMS queue to the Web Service implementation, waiting 10 seconds between each retry. Only the relevant Java code is shown in the following snippet:

package examples.webservices.buffered;
...
@WebService(name="BufferedPortType",

serviceName="BufferedService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@BufferQueue(name="my.buffer.queue")
public class BufferedImpl {
...
  @WebMethod()

@MessageBuffer(retryCount=10, retryDelay="10 seconds")
@Oneway()
public void sayHelloNoReturn(String message) {
System.out.println("sayHelloNoReturn: " + message);
}
}

 

weblogic.jws.Policies

Description

Target: Class, Method

Specifies an array of @weblogic.jws.Policy annotations.

Use this annotation if you want to attach more than one WS-Policy files to a class or method of a JWS file. If you want to attach just one WS-Policy file, you can use the @weblogic.jws.Policy on its own.

See “Using Web Services Reliable Messaging” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC and “Configuring Message-Level Security” in Securing WebLogic Web Services for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

This JWS annotation does not have any attributes.

Example

@Policies({

@Policy(uri="policy:firstPolicy.xml"),
@Policy(uri="policy:secondPolicy.xml")
})

 

weblogic.jws.Policy

Description

Target: Class, Method

Specifies that a WS-Policy file, which contains information about digital signatures, encryption, or Web Service reliable messaging, should be applied to the request or response SOAP messages.

This annotation can be used on its own to apply a single WS-Policy file to a class or method. If you want to apply more than one WS-Policy file to a class or method, use the @weblogic.jws.Policies annotation to group them together.

If this annotation is specified at the class level, the indicated WS-Policy file or files are applied to every public operation of the Web Service. If the annotation is specified at the method level, then only the corresponding operation will have the WS-Policy file applied.

By default, WS-Policy files are applied to both the request (inbound) and response (outbound) SOAP messages. You can change this default behavior with the direction attribute.

Also by default, the specified WS-Policy file is attached to the generated and published WSDL file of the Web Service so that consumers can view all the WS-Policy requirements of the Web Service. Use the attachToWsdl attribute to change this default behavior.

See “Using Web Services Reliable Messaging” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC and “Configuring Message-Level Security” in Securing WebLogic Web Services for detailed information and examples of using this annotation.

As is true for all JWS annotations, the @Policy annotation cannot be overridden at runtime, which means that the WS-Policy file you specify at buildtime using the annotation will always be associated with the Web Service. This means, for example, that although you can view the associated WS-Policy file at runtime using the Administration Console, you cannot delete (unassociate) it. You can, however, associate additional WS-Policy files using the console; see “Associate a WS-Policy file with a Web Service” in the Administration Console Online Help for detailed instructions.

Attributes

Table B-11 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Policies JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
uri Location from which to retrieve the WS-Policy file. Use the http: prefix to specify the URL of a WS-Policy file on the Web. Use the policy: prefix to specify that the WS-Policy file is packaged in the Web Service archive file or in a shareable Java EE library of WebLogic Server, as shown in the following example:
@Policy(uri="policy:MyPolicyFile.xml")
If you are going to publish the WS-Policy file in the Web Service archive, the WS-Policy XML file must be located in either the META-INF/policies or WEB-INF/policies directory of the EJB JAR file (for EJB implemented Web Services) or WAR file (for Java class implemented Web Services), respectively. For information on publishing the WS-Policy file in a library, see “Creating Shared J2EE Libraries and Optional Packages” in Developing Applications With WebLogic Server.
String Yes
direction Specifies when to apply the policy: on the inbound request SOAP message, the outbound response SOAP message, or both (default). Valid values for this attribute are:

  • Policy.Direction.both

  • Policy.Direction.inbound

  • Policy.Direction.outbound

The default value is Policy.Direction.both.

enum No
attachToWsdl Whether the WS-Policy file should be attached to the WSDL that describes the Web Service. Valid values are true and false. Default value is false. boolean No

Example

  @Policy(uri="policy:myPolicy.xml", 

attachToWsdl=true,
direction=Policy.Direction.outbound)

 

weblogic.jws.ReliabilityBuffer

Description

Target: Method

Specifies reliable messaging properties for an operation of a reliable Web Service, such as the number of times WebLogic Server should attempt to deliver the message from the JMS queue to the Web Service implementation, and the amount of time that the server should wait in between retries.

It is assumed when you specify this annotation in a JWS file that you have already enabled reliable messaging for the Web Service by also including a @Policy annotation that specifies a WS-Policy file that has Web Service reliable messaging policy assertions.

Note: If you specify the @ReliabilityBuffer annotation, but do not enable reliable messaging with an associated WS-Policy file, then WebLogic Server ignores this annotation.

See “Using Web Services Reliable Messaging” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for detailed information about enabling Web Services reliable messaging for your Web Service.

Attributes

Table B-12 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.ReliabilityBuffer JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
retryCount Number of times that the JMS queue on the destination WebLogic Server instance attempts to deliver the message from a client that invokes the reliable operation to the Web Service implementation. Default value is 3. int No
retryDelay Specifies the amount of time that elapses between message delivery retry attempts. The retry attempts are between the client's request message on the JMS queue and delivery of the message to the Web Service implementation. Valid values are a number and one of the following terms:

  • seconds

  • minutes

  • hours

  • days

  • years
For example, to specify a retry delay of two days, specify:
@ReliabilityBuffer(retryDelay="2 days")
Default value is 5 seconds.
String No

Example

The following sample snippet shows how to use the @ReliabilityBuffer annotation at the method-level to change the default retry count and delay of a reliable operation; only relevant Java code is shown:

package examples.webservices.reliable;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.Oneway;
...
import weblogic.jws.ReliabilityBuffer;

import weblogic.jws.Policy;
@WebService(name="ReliableHelloWorldPortType",

serviceName="ReliableHelloWorldService")
...
@Policy(uri="ReliableHelloWorldPolicy.xml",

direction=Policy.Direction.inbound,
attachToWsdl=true)
public class ReliableHelloWorldImpl {
  @WebMethod()

@Oneway()
@ReliabilityBuffer(retryCount=10, retryDelay="10 seconds")
  public void helloWorld(String input) {

System.out.println(" Hello World " + input);
  }

}

 

weblogic.jws.ReliabilityErrorHandler

Description

Target: Method

Specifies the method that handles the error that results when a client Web Service invokes a reliable Web Service, but the client does not receive an acknowledgement that the reliable Web Service actually received the message.

This annotation is relevant only when you implement the Web Service reliable messaging feature; you specify the annotation in the client-side Web Service that invokes a reliable Web Service.

The method you annotate with the @ReliabilityErrorHandler annotation takes a single parameter of data type weblogic.wsee.reliability.ReliabilityErrorContext. You can use this context to get more information about the cause of the error, such as the operation that caused it, the target Web Service, the fault, and so on. The method must return void.

The single attribute of the @ReliabilityErrorHandler annotation specifies the variable into which you have previously injected the stub information of the reliable Web Service that the client Web Service is invoking; you inject this information in a variable using the @weblogic.jws.ServiceClient annotation.

Attributes

Table B-13 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.ReliabilityErrorHandler JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
target Specifies the target stub name for which this method handles reliability failures. String Yes

Example

The following code snippet from a client Web Service that invokes a reliable Web Service shows how to use the @ReliabilityErrorHandler annotation; not all code is shown, and the code relevant to this annotation is shown in bold:

package examples.webservices.reliable;
...
import weblogic.jws.ServiceClient;

import weblogic.jws.ReliabilityErrorHandler;
import examples.webservices.reliable.ReliableHelloWorldPortType;
import weblogic.wsee.reliability.ReliabilityErrorContext;

import weblogic.wsee.reliability.ReliableDeliveryException;
@WebService(name="ReliableClientPortType",

...
public class ReliableClientImpl
{
  @ServiceClient(

wsdlLocation="http://localhost:7001/ReliableHelloWorld/ReliableHelloWorld?WSDL",
serviceName="ReliableHelloWorldService",
portName="ReliableHelloWorldServicePort")
  private ReliableHelloWorldPortType port;
  @WebMethod

public void callHelloWorld(String input, String serviceUrl)
throws RemoteException {
   ...
  }
  @ReliabilityErrorHandler(target="port")

public void onReliableMessageDeliveryError(ReliabilityErrorContext ctx) {
    ReliableDeliveryException fault = ctx.getFault();

String message = null;
if (fault != null) {
message = ctx.getFault().getMessage();
}
String operation = ctx.getOperationName();
System.out.println("Reliable operation " + operation + " may have not invoked. The error message is " + message);
}
}

In the example, the port variable has been injected with the stub that corresponds to the ReliableHelloWorldService Web Service, and it is assumed that at some point in the client Web Service an operation of this stub is invoked. Because the onReliableMessageDeliveryError method is annotated with the @ReliabilityErrorHandler annotation and is linked with the port stub, the method is invoked if there is a failure in an invoke of the reliable Web Service. The reliable error handling method uses the ReliabilityErrorContext object to get more details about the cause of the failure.

 

weblogic.jws.ServiceClient

Description

Target: Field

Specifies that the annotated variable in the JWS file is a stub used to invoke another WebLogic Web Service when using the following features:

You use the reliable messaging and asynchronous request-response features only between two Web Services; this means, for example, that you can invoke a reliable Web Service operation only from within another Web Service, not from a stand-alone client. In the case of reliable messaging, the feature works between any two application servers that implement the WS-ReliableMessaging specification. In the case of asynchronous request-response, the feature works only between two WebLogic Server instances.

You use the @ServiceClient annotation in the client Web Service to specify which variable is a port type for the Web Service described by the @ServiceClient attributes. The Enterprise Application that contains the client Web Service must also include the stubs of the Web Service you are invoking; you generate the stubs with the clientgen Ant task.

See Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for additional information and examples of using the @ServiceClient annotation.

Attributes

Table B-14 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.ServiceClient JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
serviceName Name of the Web Service that you are invoking. Corresponds to the name attribute of the <service> element in the WSDL of the invoked Web Service. If you used a JWS file to implement the invoked Web Service, this attribute corresponds to the serviceName attribute of the @WebService JWS annotation in the invoked Web Service. String Yes
portName Name of the port of the Web Service you are invoking. Corresponds to the name attribute of the <port> child element of the <service> element. If you used a JWS file to implement the invoked Web Service, this attribute corresponds to the portName attribute of the @WLHttpTransport JWS annotation in the invoked Web Service. If you do not specify this attribute, it is assumed that the <service> element in the WSDL contains only one <port> child element, which @ServiceClient uses. If there is more than one port, the client Web Service returns a runtime exception. String No
wsdlLocation Specifies the WSDL file that describes the Web Service you are invoking. If you do not specify this attribute, the client Web Service uses the WSDL file from which the clientgen Ant task created the Service implementation of the Web Service to be invoked. String No
endpointAddress Specifies the endpoint address of the Web Service you are invoking. If you do not specify this attribute, the client Web Service uses the endpoint address specified in the WSDL file. String No

Example

The following JWS file excerpt shows how to use the @ServiceClient annotation in a client Web Service to annotate a field (port) with the stubs of the Web Service being invoked (called ReliableHelloWorldService whose WSDL is at the URL http://localhost:7001/ReliableHelloWorld/ReliableHelloWorld?WSDL); only relevant parts of the example are shown:

package examples.webservices.reliable;
import javax.jws.WebService;
...
import weblogic.jws.ServiceClient;
import examples.webservices.reliable.ReliableHelloWorldPortType;
@WebService(...
public class ReliableClientImpl
{
  @ServiceClient(
     wsdlLocation="http://localhost:7001/ReliableHelloWorld/ReliableHelloWorld?WSDL",

serviceName="ReliableHelloWorldService",
portName="ReliableHelloWorldServicePort")
  private ReliableHelloWorldPortType port;
  @WebMethod
  public void callHelloWorld(String input, String serviceUrl)
     throws RemoteException {
    port.helloWorld(input);
    System.out.println(" Invoked the ReliableHelloWorld.helloWorld operation reliably." );
  }
}

 

weblogic.jws.StreamAttachments

Description

Target: Class

Specifies that the WebLogic Web Services runtime use streaming APIs when reading the parameters of all methods of the Web Service. This increases the performance of Web Service operation invocation, in particular when the parameters are large, such as images.

You cannot use this annotation if you are also using the following features in the same Web Service:

The @StreamAttachments annotation does not have any attributes.

Example

The following simple JWS file shows how to specify the @StreamAttachments annotation; the single method, echoAttachment(), simply takes a DataHandler parameter and echoes it back to the client application that invoked the Web Service operation. The WebLogic Web Services runtime uses streaming when reading the DataHandler content.

package examples.webservices.stream_attach;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport;

import weblogic.jws.StreamAttachments;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
@WebService(name="StreamAttachPortType",

serviceName="StreamAttachService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="stream_attach",

serviceUri="StreamAttachService",
portName="StreamAttachServicePort")
@StreamAttachments
/**

* Example of stream attachments
*/
public class StreamAttachImpl {
  @WebMethod()

public DataHandler echoAttachment(DataHandler dh) throws RemoteException {
        return dh;
  }

}

 

weblogic.jws.Transactional

Description

Target: Class, Method

Whether the annotated operation, or all the operations of the JWS file when the annotation is specified at the class-level, runs or run inside of a transaction. By default, the operations do not run inside of a transaction.

Attributes

Table B-15 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Transactional JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Whether the operation (when used at the method level) or all the operations of the Web Service (when specified at the class level) run inside of a transaction. Valid values are true and false. Default value is false. boolean No
timeout Specifies a timeout value, in seconds, for the current transaction. The default value for this attribute is 30 seconds. int No

Example

The following example shows how to use the @Transactional annotation to specify that an operation of a Web Service executes as part of a transaction:

package examples.webservices.transactional;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport;

import weblogic.jws.Transactional;
@WebService(name="TransactionPojoPortType",

serviceName="TransactionPojoService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="transactionsPojo",

serviceUri="TransactionPojoService",
portName="TransactionPojoPort")
/**

* This JWS file forms the basis of simple WebLogic
* Web Service with a single operation: sayHello. The operation executes
* as part of a transaction.
*/
public class TransactionPojoImpl {
  @WebMethod()

@Transactional(value=true)
  public String sayHello(String message) {

System.out.println("sayHello:" + message);
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'";
}
}

 

weblogic.jws.Types

Description

Target: Method, Parameter

Specifies a comma-separated list of fully qualified Java class names of the alternative data types for a return type or parameter. The alternative data types must extend the data type specified in the method signature; if this is not the case, the jwsc Ant task returns a validation error when you compile the JWS file into a Web Service.

For example, assume you have created the Address base data type, and then created USAAddress and CAAddress that extend this base type. If the method signature specifies that it takes an Address parameter, you can annotate the parameter with the @Types annotation to specify that that the public operation also takes USAAddress and CAAddress as a parameter, in addition to the base Address data type.

You can also use this annotation to restrict the data types that can be contained in parameters or return values of collection data types, such as java.util.Collection or java.util.List. By restricting the allowed contained data types, the generated WSDL is specific and unambiguous, and the Web Services runtime can do a better job of qualifying the parameters when a client application invokes a Web Service operation.

If you specify this annotation at the method-level, then it applies only to the return value. If you want the annotation to apply to parameters, specify it at the parameter-level for each relevant parameter.

Attributes

Table B-16 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.Types JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Comma-separated list of fully qualified class names for either the alternative data types that can also be used instead of the original data type, or the allowed data types contained in the collection-type parameter or return value. String[] Yes

Example

The following example shows a simple JWS file that uses the @Types annotation, with relevant Java code shown in bold:

package examples.webservices.types;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport;

import weblogic.jws.Types;
import examples.webservices.types.BasicStruct;
@WebService(serviceName="TypesService",

name="TypesPortType",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="types",

serviceUri="TypesService",
portName="TypesServicePort")
public class TypesImpl {
  @WebMethod()

@Types({"examples.webservices.types.ExtendedStruct"})
public BasicStruct echoStruct(
@Types({"examples.webservices.types.ExtendedStruct"}) BasicStruct struct)
{
System.out.println("echoStruct called");
return struct;
}
}

In the example, the signature of the echoStruct() method shows that it takes a BasicStruct value as both a parameter and a return value. However, because both the method and the struct parameter are annotated with the @Types annotation, a client application invoking the echoStruct operation can also pass it a parameter of data type ExtendedStruct; in this case the operation also returns an ExtendedStruct value. It is assumed that ExtendedStruct extends BasicStruct.

 

weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the XML Schema data type to which a wildcard class, such as javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement or org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject, binds. By default, these Java data types bind to the <xsd:any> XML Schema data type. By using this class-level annotation, you can specify that the wildcard classes bind to <xsd:anyType> instead.

Attributes

Table B-17 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
className Specifies the fully qualified name of the wildcard class for which this binding applies. Typical values are javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement and org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject. String Yes
binding Specifies the XML Schema data type to which the wildcard class should bind. You can specify one of the following values:

  • WildcardParticle.ANY

  • WildcardParticle.ANYTYPE
enum Yes

Example

The following example shows how to use the @WildcardBinding annotation to specify that the Apache XMLBeans data type XMLObject should bind to the <xsd:any> XML Schema data type for this Web Service:

@WildcardBindings({

@WildcardBinding(className="org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject",
binding=WildcardParticle.ANY),
@WildcardBinding(className="org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject[]",
binding=WildcardParticle.ANY)})
public class SimpleImpl {
...

 

weblogic.jws.WildcardBindings

Description

Target: Class

Specifies an array of @weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding annotations.

This JWS annotation does not have any attributes.

See weblogic.jws.WildcardBinding for an example.

 

weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the HTTP transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL.

You can specify this annotation only once (maximum) in a JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-18 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
contextPath Context path of the Web Service. You use this value in the URL that invokes the Web Service. For example, assume you set the context path for a Web Service to financial; a possible URL for the WSDL of the deployed WebLogic Web Service is as follows:
http://hostname:7001/financial/GetQuote?WSDL
The default value of this attribute is the name of the JWS file, without its extension. For example, if the name of the JWS file is HelloWorldImpl.java, then the default value of its contextPath is HelloWorldImpl.
String No
serviceUri Web Service URI portion of the URL. You use this value in the URL that invokes the Web Service. For example, assume you set this attribute to GetQuote; a possible URL for the deployed WSDL of the service is as follows:
http://hostname:7001/financial/GetQuote?WSDL
The default value of this attribute is the name of the JWS file, without its extension. For example, if the name of the JWS file is HelloWorldImpl.java, then the default value of its serviceUri is HelloWorldImpl.
String No
portName The name of the port in the generated WSDL. This attribute maps to the name attribute of the <port> element in the WSDL. The default value of this attribute is based on the @javax.jws.WebService annotation of the JWS file. In particular, the default portName is the value of the name attribute of @WebService annotation, plus the actual text SoapPort. For example, if @WebService.name is set to MyService, then the default portName is MyServiceSoapPort. String No

Example

@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="complex", 

serviceUri="ComplexService",
portName="ComplexServicePort")

 

weblogic.jws.WLHttpsTransport

Description

Target: Class

The @weblogic.jws.WLHttpsTransport annotation is deprecated as of version 9.2 of WebLogic Server. You should use the @weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport annotation instead because it now supports both the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. If you want client applications to access the Web Service using only the HTTPS protocol, then specify the @weblogic.jws.security.UserDataConstraint JWS annotation in your JWS file.

Specifies the context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the HTTPS transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL.

You can specify this annotation only once (maximum) in a JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-19 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.WLHttpsTransport JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
contextPath Context path of the Web Service. You use this value in the URL that invokes the Web Service. For example, assume you set the context path for a Web Service to financial; a possible URL for the WSDL of the deployed WebLogic Web Service is as follows:
https://hostname:7001/financial/GetQuote?WSDL
The default value of this attribute is the name of the JWS file, without its extension. For example, if the name of the JWS file is HelloWorldImpl.java, then the default value of its contextPath is HelloWorldImpl.
String No
serviceUri Web Service URI portion of the URL. You use this value in the URL that invokes the Web Service. For example, assume you set this attribute to GetQuote; a possible URL for the deployed WSDL of the service is as follows:
https://hostname:7001/financial/GetQuote?WSDL
The default value of this attribute is the name of the JWS file, without its extension. For example, if the name of the JWS file is HelloWorldImpl.java, then the default value of its serviceUri is HelloWorldImpl.
String No
portName The name of the port in the generated WSDL. This attribute maps to the name attribute of the <port> element in the WSDL. The default value of this attribute is based on the @javax.jws.WebService annotation of the JWS file. In particular, the default portName is the value of the name attribute of @WebService annotation, plus the actual text SoapPort. For example, if @WebService.name is set to MyService, then the default portName is MyServiceSoapPort. String No

Example

@WLHttpsTransport(portName="helloSecurePort",

contextPath="secure",
serviceUri="SimpleSecureBean")

 

weblogic.jws.WLJmsTransport

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the context path and service URI sections of the URL used to invoke the Web Service over the JMS transport, as well as the name of the port in the generated WSDL. You also use this annotation to specify the JMS queue to which WebLogic Server queues the SOAP request messages from invokes of the operations.

You can specify this annotation only once (maximum) in a JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-20 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.WLJmsTransport JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
contextPath Context path (or context root) of the Web Service. You use this value in the URL that invokes the Web Service. String No
serviceUri Web Service URI portion of the URL used by client applications to invoke the Web Service. String No
queue The JNDI name of the JMS queue that you have configured for the JMS transport. See “Using JMS Transport as the Connection Protocol” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for details about using JMS transport. The default value of this attribute, if you do not specify it, is weblogic.wsee.DefaultQueue. You must still create this JMS queue in the WebLogic Server instance to which you deploy your Web Service. String No
portName The name of the port in the generated WSDL. This attribute maps to the name attribute of the <port> element in the WSDL. If you do not specify this attribute, the jwsc generates a default name based on the name of the class that implements the Web Service. String No
connectionFactory The JNDI name of the JMS connection factory that you have configured for the JMS transport. See “Using JMS Transport as the Connection Protocol” in Programming Advanced Features of WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for details about using JMS transport. String Yes

Example

The following example shows how to specify that the JWS file implements a Web Service that is invoked using the JMS transport. The JMS queue to which WebLogic Server queues SOAP message requests from invokes of the service operations is JMSTransportQueue; it is assumed that this JMS queue has already been configured for WebLogic Server.

WLJmsTransport(contextPath="transports", 

serviceUri="JMSTransport",
queue="JMSTransportQueue",
portName="JMSTransportServicePort")

 

weblogic.jws.WSDL

Description

Target: Class

Whether to expose the WSDL of a deployed WebLogic Web Service.

By default, the WSDL is exposed at the following URL:

http://[host]:[port]/[contextPath]/[serviceUri]?WSDL

where:

For example, assume you used the following @WLHttpTransport annotation:

@WLHttpTransport(portName="helloPort",

contextPath="hello",
serviceUri="SimpleImpl")

The URL to get view the WSDL of the Web Service, assuming the service is running on a host called ariel at the default port number, is:

http://ariel:7001/hello/SimpleImpl?WSDL

Attributes

Table B-21 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.WSDL JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
exposed Whether to expose the WSDL of a deployed Web Service. Valid values are true and false. Default value is true, which means that by default the WSDL is exposed. boolean No

Example

The following use of the @WSDL annotation shows how to specify that the WSDL of a deployed Web Service not be exposed; only relevant Java code is shown:

package examples.webservices;
import weblogic.jws.WSDL;
@WebService(name="WsdlAnnotationPortType",

serviceName="WsdlAnnotationService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@WSDL(exposed=false)
public class WsdlAnnotationImpl {
...
}

 

weblogic.jws.security.CallbackRolesAllowed

Description

Target: Method, Field

Specifies an array of @SecurityRole JWS annotations that list the roles that are allowed to invoke the callback methods of the Web Service. A user that is mapped to an unspecified role, or is not mapped to any role at all, would not be allowed to invoke the callback methods.

If you use this annotation at the field level, then the specified roles are allowed to invoke all callback operations of the Web Service. If you use this annotation at the method-level, then the specified roles are allowed to invoke only that callback method. If specified at both levels, the method value overrides the field value if there is a conflict.

Attributes

Table B-22 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.CallbackRolesAllowed JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Array of @weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed that list the roles allowed to invoke the callback methods. String[] Yes

Example

The following example shows how to use the @CallbackRolesAllowed annotation at the method level to specify that the role engineer is allowed to invoke the callback method:

  @CallbackMethod(target="port", operation="callbackOperation")

@CallbackRolesAllowed(@SecurityRole(role="engineer", mapToPrincipals="shackell"))
public void callbackHandler(String msg) {
        System.out.println (msg);
  }

 

weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed

Description

Target: Class, Method

Whether to enable basic authentication for a Web Service. In particular, it specifies an array of @SecurityRole JWS annotations that describe the list of roles that are allowed to invoke the Web Service. A user that is mapped to an unspecified role, or is not mapped to any role at all, would not be allowed to invoke the Web Service.

If you use this annotation at the class-level, then the specified roles are allowed to invoke all operations of the Web Service. To specify roles for just a specific set of operations, specify the annotation at the operation-level.

Attributes

Table B-23 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Array of @weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed that list the roles allowed to invoke the Web Service methods. String[] Yes

Example

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed;

import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole;
@WebService(name="SecurityRolesPortType",

serviceName="SecurityRolesService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@RolesAllowed (  {

@SecurityRole (role="manager",
mapToPrincipals={ "juliet","amanda" }),
@SecurityRole (role="vp")
} )
public class SecurityRolesImpl {
...

In the example, only the roles manager and vp are allowed to invoke the Web Service. Within the context of the Web Service, the users juliet and amanda are assigned the role manager. The role vp, however, does not include a mapToPrincipals attribute, which implies that users have been mapped to this role externally. It is assumed that you have already added the two users (juliet and amanda) to the WebLogic Server security realm.

 

weblogic.jws.security.RolesReferenced

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the list of role names that reference actual roles that are allowed to invoke the Web Service. In particular, it specifies an array of @SecurityRoleRef JWS annotations, each of which describe a link between a referenced role name and an actual role defined by a @SecurityRole annotation.

This JWS annotation does not have any attributes.

Example

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed;

import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole;
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesReferenced;
import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoleRef;
@WebService(name="SecurityRolesPortType",

serviceName="SecurityRolesService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@RolesAllowed (  {

@SecurityRole (role="manager",
mapToPrincipals={ "juliet","amanda" }),
@SecurityRole (role="vp")
} )
@RolesReferenced (

@SecurityRoleRef (role="mgr", link="manager")
)
public class SecurityRolesImpl {
...

In the example, the role mgr is linked to the role manager, which is allowed to invoke the Web Service. This means that any user who is assigned to the role of mgr is also allowed to invoke the Web Service.

 

weblogic.jws.security.RunAs

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the role and user identity which actually runs the Web Service in WebLogic Server.

For example, assume that the @RunAs annotation specifies the roleA role and userA principal. This means that even if the Web Service is invoked by userB (mapped to roleB), the relevant operation is actually executed internal as userA.

Attributes

Table B-24 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.RunAs JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
role Specifies the role which the Web Service should be run as. String Yes
mapToPrincipal Specifies the principal user that maps to the role. It is assumed that you have already configured the specified principal (user) as a valid WebLogic Server user, typically using the Administration Console. See “Create users” in the Administration Console Online Help for details. String Yes

Example

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
import weblogic.jws.security.RunAs;
...
@WebService(name="SecurityRunAsPortType",

serviceName="SecurityRunAsService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@RunAs (role="manager", mapToPrincipal="juliet")
public class SecurityRunAsImpl {
...

The example shows how to specify that the Web Service is always run as user juliet, mapped to the role manager, regardless of who actually invoked the Web Service.

 

weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole

Description

Target: Class, Method

Specifies the name of a role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service. This annotation is always specified in the JWS file as a member of a @RolesAllowed array.

When a client application invokes the secured Web Service, it specifies a user and password as part of its basic authentication. It is assumed that an administrator has already configured the user as a valid WebLogic Server user using the Administration Console; for details see “Create Users” in the Administration Console Online Help.

The user that is going to invoke the Web Service must also be mapped to the relevant role. You can perform this task in one of the following two ways:

To specify that multiple roles are allowed to invoke the Web Service, include multiple @SecurityRole annotations within the @RolesAllowed annotation.

Attributes

Table B-25 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
role The name of the role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service. String Yes
mapToPrincipals An array of user names that map to the role. If you do not specify this attribute, it is assumed that you have externally defined the mapping between users and the role, typically using the Administration Console. String[] No

Example

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed;

import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole;
@WebService(name="SecurityRolesPortType",

serviceName="SecurityRolesService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@RolesAllowed (  {

@SecurityRole (role="manager",
mapToPrincipals={ "juliet","amanda" }),
@SecurityRole (role="vp")
} )
public class SecurityRolesImpl {
...

In the example, only the roles manager and vp are allowed to invoke the Web Service. Within the context of the Web Service, the users juliet and amanda are assigned the role manager. The role vp, however, does not include a mapToPrincipals attribute, which implies that users have been mapped to this role externally. It is assumed that you have already added the two users (juliet and amanda) to the WebLogic Server security realm.

 

weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoleRef

Description

Target: Class

Specifies a role name reference that links to an already-specified role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service.

Users that are mapped to the role reference can invoke the Web Service as long as the referenced role is specified in the @RolesAllowed annotation of the Web Service.

Attributes

Table B-26 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoleRef JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
role Name of the role reference. String Yes
link Name of the already-specified role that is allowed to invoke the Web Service. The value of this attribute corresponds to the value of the role attribute of a @SecurityRole annotation specified in the same JWS file. String Yes

Example

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesAllowed;

import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRole;
import weblogic.jws.security.RolesReferenced;
import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoleRef;
@WebService(name="SecurityRolesPortType",

serviceName="SecurityRolesService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@RolesAllowed (  {

@SecurityRole (role="manager",
mapToPrincipals={ "juliet","amanda" }),
@SecurityRole (role="vp")
} )
@RolesReferenced (

@SecurityRoleRef (role="mgr", link="manager")
)
public class SecurityRolesImpl {
...

In the example, the role mgr is linked to the role manager, which is allowed to invoke the Web Service. This means that any user who is assigned to the role of mgr is also allowed to invoke the Web Service.

 

weblogic.jws.security.UserDataConstraint

Description

Target: Class

Whether the client is required to use the HTTPS transport when invoking the Web Service.

WebLogic Server establishes a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection between the client and Web Service if the transport attribute of this annotation is set to either Transport.INTEGRAL or Transport.CONFIDENTIAL in the JWS file that implements the Web Service.

If you specify this annotation in your JWS file, also specify the weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport annotation (or the <WLHttpTransport> element of the jwsc Ant task) to ensure that an HTTPS binding is generated in the WSDL file by the jwsc Ant task.

Attributes

Table B-27 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.UserDataConstraint JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
transport Whether the client is required to use the HTTPS transport when invoking the Web Service. Valid values are:

  • Transport.NONE—Specifies that the Web Service does not require any transport guarantees.

  • Transport.INTEGRAL—Specifies that the Web Service requires that the data be sent between the client and Web Service in such a way that it cannot be changed in transit.

  • Transport.CONFIDENTIAL—Specifies that the Web Service requires that data be transmitted so as to prevent other entities from observing the contents of the transmission.
Default value is Transport.NONE.
enum No

Example

package examples.webservices.security_https;
import weblogic.jws.security.UserDataConstraint;
...
@WebService(name="SecurityHttpsPortType",

serviceName="SecurityHttpsService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@UserDataConstraint(

transport=UserDataConstraint.Transport.CONFIDENTIAL)
public class SecurityHttpsImpl {
...

 

weblogic.jws.security.WssConfiguration

Description

Target: Class

Specifies the name of the Web Service security configuration you want the Web Service to use. If you do not specify this annotation in your JWS file, the Web Service is associated with the default security configuration (called default_wss) if it exists in your domain.

The @WssConfiguration annotation only makes sense if your Web Service is configured for message-level security (encryption and digital signatures). The security configuration, associated to the Web Service using this annotation, specifies information such as whether to use an X.509 certificate for identity, whether to use password digests, the keystore to be used for encryption and digital signatures, and so on.

WebLogic Web Services are not required to be associated with a security configuration; if the default behavior of the Web Services security runtime is adequate then no additional configuration is needed. If, however, a Web Service requires different behavior from the default (such as using an X.509 certificate for identity, rather than the default username/password token), then the Web Service must be associated with a security configuration.

Before you can successfully invoke a Web Service that specifies a security configuration, use the Administration Console to create it. For details, see “Create a Web Services security configuration” in the Administration Console Online Help. For general information about message-level security, see “Configuring Message-Level Security” in Securing WebLogic Web Services.

All WebLogic Web Services packaged in a single Web Application must be associated with the same security configuration when using the @WssConfiguration annotation. This means, for example, that if a @WssConfiguration annotation exists in all the JWS files that implement the Web Services contained in a given Web Application, then the value attribute of each @WssConfiguration must be the same.

Note: To specify that more than one Web Service be contained in a single Web Application when using the jwsc Ant task to compile the JWS files into Web Services, group the corresponding <jws> elements under a single <module> element.

Attributes

Table B-28 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.WssConfiguration JWS Annotation Tag
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Name of the Web Service security configuration that is associated with this Web Service. The default configuration is called default_wss. You must create the security configuration (even the default one) using the Administration Console before you can successfully invoke the Web Service. String Yes

Example

The following example shows how to specify that a Web Service is associated with the my_security_configuration security configuration; only the relevant Java code is shown:

package examples.webservices.wss_configuration;
import javax.jws.WebService;

...
import weblogic.jws.security.WssConfiguration;
@WebService(...

...
@WssConfiguration(value="my_security_configuration")
public class WssConfigurationImpl {
...

 

weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding

Description

Target: Method

Specifies the mapping of a Web Service operation onto the SOAP message protocol.

This annotation is analogous to @javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding except that it applies to a method rather than the class. With this annotation you can specify, for example, that one Web Service operation uses RPC-encoded SOAP bindings and another operation in the same Web Service uses document-literal-wrapped SOAP bindings.

Because @weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding and @javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding have the same class name, be careful which annotation you are referring to when using it in your JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-29 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
style Specifies the message style of the request and response SOAP messages of the invoked annotated operation. Valid values are:

  • SOAPBinding.Style.RPC

  • SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT.
Default value is SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT.
enum No
use Specifies the formatting style of the request and response SOAP messages of the invoked annotated operation. Valid values are:

  • SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL

  • SOAPBinding.Use.ENCODED
Default value is SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL.
enum No
parameterStyle Determines whether method parameters represent the entire message body, or whether the parameters are elements wrapped inside a top-level element named after the operation. Valid values are:

  • SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.BARE

  • SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED
Default value is SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED

This attribute applies only to Web Services of style document-literal. Or in other words, you can specify this attribute only if you have also set the style attribute to SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT and the use attribute to SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL.

enum No

Example

The following simple JWS file shows how to specify that, by default, the operations of the Web Service use document-literal-wrapped SOAP bindings; you specify this by using the @javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding annotation at the class-level. The example then shows how to specify different SOAP bindings for individual methods by using the @weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding annotation at the method-level. In particular, the sayHelloDocLitBare() method uses document-literal-bare SOAP bindings, and the sayHelloRPCEncoded() method uses RPC-encoded SOAP bindings.

package examples.webservices.soap_binding_method;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import weblogic.jws.WLHttpTransport;
@WebService(name="SoapBindingMethodPortType",

serviceName="SoapBindingMethodService",
targetNamespace="http://example.org")
@SOAPBinding(style=SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT,

use=SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
parameterStyle=SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)
@WLHttpTransport(contextPath="soap_binding_method",

serviceUri="SoapBindingMethodService",
portName="SoapBindingMethodServicePort")
/**

* Simple JWS example that shows how to specify soap bindings for a method.
*/
public class SoapBindingMethodImpl {
  @WebMethod()

@weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding(
style=SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT,
use=SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
parameterStyle=SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.BARE)
  public String sayHelloDocLitBare(String message) {

System.out.println("sayHelloDocLitBare" + message);
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'";
}
  @WebMethod()

@weblogic.jws.soap.SOAPBinding(
style=SOAPBinding.Style.RPC,
use=SOAPBinding.Use.ENCODED)
  public String sayHelloRPCEncoded (String message) {

System.out.println("sayHelloRPCEncoded" + message);
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'";
}
}

 

weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoles (deprecated)

Description

Target: Class, Method

The @weblogic.security.jws.SecurityRoles JWS annotation is deprecated beginning in WebLogic Server 9.0.

Specifies the roles that are allowed to access the operations of the Web Service.

If you specify this annotation at the class level, then the specified roles apply to all public operations of the Web Service. You can also specify a list of roles at the method level if you want to associate different roles to different operations of the same Web Service.

The @SecurityRoles annotation is supported only within the context of an EJB-implemented Web Service. For this reason, you can specify this annotation only inside of a JWS file that explicitly implements javax.ejb.SessionBean. See “Securing Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)” in Programming WebLogic Security for conceptual information about what it means to secure access to an EJB. See “Should You Implement a Stateless Session EJB?” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for information about explicitly implementing an EJB in a JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-30 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoles JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
rolesAllowed List of roles that are allowed to access the Web Service. This annotation is the equivalent of the <method-permission> element in the ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor of the stateless session EJB that implements the Web Service. Array of String No
rolesReferenced Specifies a list of roles referenced by the Web Service. The Web Service may access other resources using the credentials of the listed roles. This annotation is the equivalent of the <security-role-ref> element in the ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor of the stateless session EJB that implements the Web Service. Array of String No

Example

The following example shows how to specify, at the class-level, that the Web Service can be invoked only by the Admin role; only relevant parts of the example are shown:

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;

import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
import weblogic.ejbgen.Session;
import javax.jws.WebService;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityRoles;
@Session(ejbName="SecurityRolesEJB")
@WebService(...
// Specifies the roles who can invoke the entire Web Service
@SecurityRoles(rolesAllowed="Admnin")
public class SecurityRolesImpl implements SessionBean {
...

 

weblogic.jws.security.SecurityIdentity (deprecated)

Description

Target: Class

The @weblogic.security.jws.SecurityIdentity JWS annotation is deprecated beginning in WebLogic Server 9.1.

Specifies the identity assumed by the Web Service when it is invoked.

Unless otherwise specified, a Web Service assumes the identity of the authenticated invoker. This annotation allows the developer to override this behavior so that the Web Service instead executes as a particular role. The role must map to a user or group in the WebLogic Server security realm.

The @SecurityIdentity annotation only makes sense within the context of an EJB-implemented Web Service. For this reason, you can specify this annotation only inside of a JWS file that explicitly implements javax.ejb.SessionBean. See “Securing Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)” in Programming WebLogic Security for conceptual information about what it means to secure access to an EJB. See “Should You Implement a Stateless Session EJB?” in Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-RPC for information about explicitly implementing an EJB in a JWS file.

Attributes

Table B-31 Attributes of the weblogic.jws.security.SecurityIdentity JWS Annotation
Name Description Data Type Required?
value Specifies the role which the Web Service assumes when it is invoked. The role must map to a user or group in the WebLogic Server security realm. String Yes

Example

The following example shows how to specify that the Web Service, when invoked, runs as the Admin role:

package examples.webservices.security_roles;
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;

import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
import weblogic.ejbgen.Session;
import javax.jws.WebService;
...
import weblogic.jws.security.SecurityIdentity;
@Session(ejbName="SecurityRolesEJB")
@WebService(...
// Specifies that the Web Service runs as the Admin role
@SecurityIdentity( value="Admin")
public class SecurityRolesImpl implements SessionBean {
...