help with jsr181, ejb3s and message style end points, do the

[craig.barker]

Hi All,

Quick question...i'm using 181 annotated EJB3's in a very simple web service and i want to know if it's possible to have my EJB pickup the SOAP message as a DOM object instead of being bound to some Java data type. Yes I am talking about message style endpoints but via 181 annotations. If there are no direct 181 annotations that will get this working can I leave my object as it is at present and create some other deployment artifact to get this working? Or do i have to bite the bullet and come away from EJB3s and 181 annotations to achieve this?

The artifacts i have so far are......

EJB

@WebService(name = "EndpointInterface",
 targetNamespace="http://xyz.com",
 serviceName="TestService",
 wsdlLocation="META-INF/wsdl/TestService.wsdl")
public @Stateless class TestEndPointBean {

 @WebMethod public SOAPElement helloWorld(SOAPElement msg)
 {
 return new SOAPElementImpl("test");
 }
}

relevant snipped of my WSDL file

 <types>
 <xsd:element name="helloWorldResponse" type="xsd:anyType" />
 </xsd:schema>
 </types>
 <message name="EndpointInterface_helloWorldResponse">
 <part name="result" element="tns:helloWorldResponse" />
 </message>
 <message name="EndpointInterface_helloWorld">
 <!-- <part name="parameters" element="tns:root" /> -->
 <part name="input" element="tns:helloWorldResponse" />
 </message>
 <portType name="EndpointInterface">
 <operation name="helloWorld">
 <input message="tns:EndpointInterface_helloWorld" />
 <output message="tns:EndpointInterface_helloWorldResponse" />
 </operation>
 </portType>

Many thanks in advance,

Craig