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Annotating the SEI

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The SEI requires that you add the @WebService annotation. Since the SEI is the contract that defines the service, you should specify as much detail as you can about the service in the @WebService annotation's properties.

The below shows the interface defined in above with the @WebService annotation.

Interface with the @WebService Annotation

package com.mycompany.demo;

import javax.jws.*;

@WebService(name="quoteUpdater",
   targetNamespace="http://cxf.apache.org",
   wsdlLocation="http://somewhere.com/quoteExampleService?wsdl")
public interface QuoteReporter {
   public Quote getQuote(@WebParam(name="ticker") String ticker);
}

The @WebService annotation above does the following:

Procedure

  1. Specifies that the value of the name attribute of the wsdl:portType element defining the service interface is quoteUpdater .
  2. Specifies that the target namespace of the service is http://cxf.apache.org.
  3. Specifies that the service will use the pre-defined WSDL contract published at http://somewhere.com/quoteExampleService?wsdl.

Results

The @WebParam annotation is necessary as java interfaces do not store the Parameter name in the .class file. So if you leave out the annotation your parameter will be named arg0.

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