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file. Create a directory called

deploy

in

C:\tutorials\axisEJB\axisEJBHello

. Create a file

called

deploy.wsdd

and put it in the

deploy

directory with the following contents:

xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">

value="rickhightower.axis.ejb.tutorial.HelloHome"/>

value="rickhightower.axis.ejb.tutorial.Hello"/>

value="http://localhost:8080/AxisEJB/hessian"/>

value="com.caucho.hessian.HessianContextFactory"/>

The file can be broken down as follows:

1) What Kind of service?

This service is EJB based

...

...

Notice that the provider type of the service is

java:EJB

(for example,

provider="java:EJB"

). The provider type of

java:EJB

specifies that this is an

EJB based Web service. A provider is a Handler responsible for implementing the logic

of the service.

In this case, you are specifying that you are using a provider that will delegate the

actual logic development to an EJB component. The EJB provider is part of the

standard Axis distribution. The EJB provider extends the RPC provider. If you have

worked with Axis before you likely worked with the

java:RPC

org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider

). The RPC provider

implements message processing by walking over RPCElements of the SOAP envelope

body and invoking the appropriate methods on a plain old Java Object (POJO). The

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