Java Web Services in a Nutshell

Name

Service

Synopsis

public interface Service {
// Property Accessor Methods (by property name)
    public abstract javax.xml.rpc.handler.HandlerRegistry getHandlerRegistry(  );
    public abstract Iterator getPorts(  ) throws ServiceException;
    public abstract javax.xml.namespace.QName getServiceName(  ); 
    public abstract javax.xml.rpc.encoding.TypeMappingRegistry getTypeMappingRegistry(  ); 
    public abstract java.net.URL getWSDLDocumentLocation(  ); 
// Public Instance Methods
    public abstract Call createCall(  ) throws ServiceException; 
    public abstract Call createCall(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName) 
       throws ServiceException; 
    public abstract Call createCall(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName, 
        javax.xml.namespace.QName operationName) throws ServiceException;
    public abstract Call createCall(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName, 
    String operationName) throws ServiceException; 
    public abstract Call[ ] getCalls(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName) 
       throws ServiceException; 
    public abstract java.rmi.Remote getPort(Class serviceEndpointInterface) 
         throws ServiceException; 
    public abstract java.rmi.Remote getPort(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName, 
         Class serviceEndpointInterface) throws ServiceException;
}

Service is the core interface of the JAX-RPC client-side API, representing a service element in a WSDL definition of a web service. There are several ways to obtain a Service object, which are discussed in the following list.

• By using a tool such as wscompile to generate stubs from a WSDL file or an equivalent ...