Java Web Services in a Nutshell

J2EEC — Utility for Creating Stubs and Ties for a JAX-RPC Web Service

Availability

J2EE 1.4 reference implementation.

Synopsis

j2eec [-keep | -keepgenerated ] [-o output] module

Description

j2eec is a command-line utility that is part of the J2EE reference implementation. It accepts a deployable J2EE module and creates a JAR file containing some or all of the following:

• Client-side stubs for EJBs that have a remote interface

• Client-side stubs for web services

• Server-side ties for web services

• A sun-j2ee-ri.xml file containing information that can be used by containers into which the original module is deployed

The newly created JAR file can be used as follows:

• To deploy the original module to a J2EE RI application server using the -deployGeneratedModule option of the deploytool command (discussed later), without incurring the overhead of stub and tie generation. This technique may be useful if you need to deploy the same module to more than one server.

• As the stubs file when running a J2EE application client using the runclient utility, as described in Section 6.4. If the client JAR file contains service-ref elements referring to web services deployed in the server, the sun-j2ee-ri.xml file contains the information that the client container needs to bind a generated Service object that can be used to access the service in the application’s JNDI environment at runtime.

Options

The behavior of the j2eec command is determined primarily by the deployment descriptors provided in the J2EE module supplied ...