The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

A Web Service Example: HelloServiceBean

This example demonstrates a simple Web service that generates a response based on information received from the client. HelloServiceBean is a stateless session bean that implements a single method, sayHello. This method matches the sayHello method invoked by the clients described in Static Stub Client (page 321). Later in this section, you'll test the HelloServiceBean by running one of these JAX-RPC clients.

Web Service Endpoint Interface

HelloService is the bean's Web service endpoint interface. It provides the client's view of the Web service, hiding the stateless session bean from the client. A Web service endpoint interface must conform to the rules of a JAX-RPC service definition interface. For a summary ...