Creating a SOAP Service using JAX-WS Annotations

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

It is possible to create SOAP webservices with only a few lines of code using the JAX-WS annotations. In a productivity environment you might prefer using contract-first instead of code-first to create your webservice but for now we’re going to use the fast method and that means code-first and annotations olé!

Creating the SOAP Service

Create a class SampleService with two public methods
Annotate this class with @WebService (javax.jws.WebService) – now all public methods of this class are exported for our SOAP service
To change the name of an exported method, annotate the method with @WebMethod(operationName = “theDesiredName”) (javax.jws.WebMethod)

Finally the service class could look like this

package com.hascode.tutorial.soap;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService public class SampleService {
 @WebMethod(operationName = "getInfo") public String getInformation() {
 return "hasCode.com";
 }

 public String doubleString(String inString) {
 return inString + inString;
 }
}

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Creating a SOAP Service using JAX-WS Annotations

Creating the SOAP Service