Hello, I'm new to web services and I'm having real trouble exposing an EJB as a web service. I'm not sure whether what I'm trying to do is impossible though, or whether I am approaching this in entirely the wrong way...
I am using Axis 1.2RC2 on Tomcat 4.1.31/Windows 2000 Professional. I am familiar enough with Tomcat, it's just web services where my head is spinning because there seem to be so many ways of doing things! I also have the option of putting Axis within JBoss (I have v4.0.0) (I have removed the jboss-ws4ee.sar folder and got Axis working OK within JBoss). All OK so far, but when I try to do something useful... My task is to expose an EJB (which has been generated by a 3rd party, and I can't see the source of the runtime helper classes it uses). I successfully ran Java2WSDL (on the EJB remote interface) to create the .wsdd but received warnings about some of the objects used for I/O not having default constructors so not being mappable to XML. I cannot therefore run WSDL2Java on the .wsdd to create the endpoint stub. I have considered writing a wrapper EJB whose call method has a similar signature, but has equivalent classes with default constructors, but I'm not sure whether that is feasible because I don't know how the clients of the EJB will be built. I have also thought about putting a service-endpoint into ejb-jar.xml, but by now I am so confused I'm not sure which direction I should be heading. If anyone has any advice on whether this is possible, and what I should be doing, then it would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Dan
