Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server

Chapter 7 – Web services 129
7.2.1 Creating a Web Service project in Eclipse
As discussed in earlier sections, you can create a Dynamic Web Project to host Web
Services classes as follows:
Note:
1. From Eclipse main menu, select File -> New -> Dynamic Web Project
2. In the New Dynamic Web Project dialog, input the Project Name, such as
HelloServiceProject, and click Next
3. Keep the default values on the following pages and click Finish.
We do not recommend you to use the Axis2’s Web Services wizard provided by the Eclipse
Web Tools Platform (WTP) to create a Web Services project.
7.2.2 Creating a service endpoint interface
Service endpoint interface (SEI) is a normal Java interface, which is used to describe what
a Web service can do. To develop a SEI, you need to define an interface and annotate it
with the @WebService annotation. In this section, you will use the Java First
Development; this means that the WSDL document is not available and therefore you
should not provide the wsdlLocation property; otherwise you will receive a WSDL file not
found exception. This is illustrated in Listing 7.1 below.
package com.ibm.wasce.samples;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService (name="HelloPeople",
targetNamespace="http://samples.wasce.ibm.com")
public interface HelloPeople {
public String sayHello(String targetName);
}
Listing 7.1 – SEI: HelloPeople.java
Though in the above listing the @WebService annotation properties name and
targetNamespace have some values, it is fine to provide the @WebService annotation
without any properties to use defaults.
7.2.3 Providing the service implementation class
After creating a SEI, you need to provide a Java bean to implement it. You have to
designate the endpointInterface property when the service class is implementing a
SEI as shown in Listing 7.2.
package com.ibm.wasce.samples;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService(serviceName = "HelloBillService",