Seam and Web Services

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I was trying to expose some methods on a Seam component as web services using the @WebMethod annotations as per the JBoss WS documentation. It almost worked, except that the web service called a non-instantiated class, so all the seam stuff didn't work. Which makes sense. (It's my first time making a web service).

At any rate, I then tried using the following code:

Class[] args1 = new Class[2];
 args1[0] = String.class;
 args1[1] = String.class;
 String[] zipsArray = new String[2];
 zipsArray[0] = pZip1;
 zipsArray[1] = pZip2;
 Component comp = Seam.componentForName("carbonCalculator");
 Double cost = 0.0;
 try {
 cost = (Double) comp.callComponentMethod(comp, CarbonCalculator.class.getMethod("calculateCost", args1),
 (Object[]) zipsArray);
 } catch (SecurityException e) {
 // TODO Auto-generated catch block
 e.printStackTrace();
 } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
 // TODO Auto-generated catch block
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 return cost;

I kept getting a no such method error. The method exists on the seam component.

Anyway, I didn't know if there were any examples or documentation or approaches for exposing seam component's as web services? For the time being I have a non-seam copy of the code to support the web service, but that's clearly a bad approach.

Ideas?

Thanks!

Devon