EJB3 client to web services

[lhoriman]

I'm writing an EJB3 bean that is a client to a random web service, ie one for whom I have WSDL and that's about it.

I notice all the documentation and howto's demonstrate putting a <service-ref> element in the ejb-jar.xml. However, since I'm writing ejb3 beans, I have no ejb-jar.xml. Nor does it appear that the ejb3 spec yet has any annotation equivalent to <service-ref>.

Am I hosed?

I'm guessing that (at worst) I can just use the JWSDP-generated classes like a normal (non-WS4EE) java client. However, I'm having some difficulty figuring out which jars to include in my app given that some of them will already be visible (I'm using 4.0.2rc1 server/all). Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeff

[jason.greene]

Yes you want be able to do this till the appropriate annotations are added. You are free to use JWSDP as your client stack. I don't know which jars you need off of the top of my head. To get an idea which jars you need they have a wsdeploy tool that builds a war. In that war they stuff the appropriate jars.

If you run into classloading conflicts, you may need to remove JBossWS from your jboss instance.

-Jason

[thomas.diesler]

This has been assigned

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-185