Assembling a JAR file that is enabled for web services from an enterprise bean

You can assemble a web service-enabled enterprise bean Java archive (JAR) file with an assembly tool using artifacts generated from tooling.

Before you begin

You can assemble Java-based web services modules with assembly tools provided with WebSphere® Application Server.

You need the following artifacts that are generated from the WSDL2Java command-line tool to complete this task:

About this task

Assemble a web services-enabled enterprise bean JAR file from Java code by following the actions in the steps for this task section.

Procedure

  1. Start an assembly tool. Read about starting the assembly tool in the Rational® Application Developer documentation.
  2. If you have not done so already, configure the assembly tool so that it works on Java EE modules. You need to make sure that the Java EE and Web categories are enabled. Read about configuring the assembly tool in the Rational Application Developer documentation.
  3. Migrate JAR files created with the Assembly Toolkit, Application Assembly Tool or a different tool to the Rational Application Developer assembly tool. To migrate files, import your JAR files to the assembly tool. Read about migrating code artifacts to an assembly tool in the Rational Application Developer documentation.

Results

You have the artifacts required to web service-enable an Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) module for web services. The artifacts are added to the JAR file. Now you need to configure the deployment descriptors so that you can deploy the web service into the application server run time environment.

Example

The AddressBook.jar JAR file contains the following files after assembly. The files added in this task are in bold. These files include the WSDL file, the deployment descriptors, and the JAX-RPC mapping file.
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 
META-INF/ejb-jar.xml 
addr/Address.class 
addr/AddressBook_RI.class 
addr/AddressBookBean.class 
addr/AddressBookHome.class 
addr/Phone.class 
addr/StateType.class 
addr/AddressBook.class 
META-INF/wsdl/AddressBook.wsdl 
META-INF/ibm-webservices-bnd.xmi 
META-INF/ibm-webservices-ext.xmi
META-INF/webservices.xml
META-INF/AddressBook_mapping.xml

What to do next

Assemble the EAR file so that you can deploy the EAR file into WebSphere Application Server.



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