Chapter 11. WSDL-Centric Java Web Services with SOA-J

This chapter introduces the Service Oriented Architecture for Java (SOA-J) Application Framework. SOA-J is a Web Services publishing framework that is WSDL-centric. It enables you to construct WSDL defined services from Java POJOs and EJBs. The Web Services published by SOA-J can be used as components within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this manner, SOA-J can be used to map existing Java applications into an SOA framework.

The goal of SOA-J is to leverage the Java Web Services (JWS) standards to create a framework that facilitates WSDL-centric construction of Web Services. Using SOA-J, you create a Web service by building its WSDL and annotating that WSDL document with references ...

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