11.4 Service Description
In addition to configuring your Web Service, you can
also edit the Web Services Assembler configuration file to specify
whether a WSDL file is automatically
generated as part of the packing process or if the Web Services
Assembler is to include a WDSL file you already created during the
creation of the EAR file. You can also direct it to create Web
Service proxy JAR files.A Web Service proxy
is a class generated by the Web
Services Assembler that is a complete client-side SOAP implementation
for the specified Web Service. With the proxy, you can create a
working client by simply instantiating a copy of the proxy and then
calling a proxy method with the same name and the same parameters as
the target service.Both the generated WSDL and the proxy JAR files are available at a
Web Service's endpoint. Figure 11-5
is an example of a Web Service's endpoint for the
service method in Example 11-1. The WSDL file is
available at the Service Description link. You can test an RPC-style
Web Service by following its service method link. In this case, the
link is sayHello. In addition, two proxy JAR
files are made available, one containing the Java source for the
proxy and the second containing the compiled class files.
Figure 11-5. OC4J Web Service endpoint
