deployment descriptor for @WebService

[wasu]

Hello,

I have successfully deployed a JAX-RPC Webservice at jboss 4.2.2 using EJB 3.0 and java 6. I am using the @WebService annotation and a web.xml entry for the corresponding Servlet. After deployment the wsdl file was generated automatically and correctly.

The Bean I have written:

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
public class HelloBean {
@WebMethod
public String echo(String input) {
return "Hello " +input;
}
}

The web.xml:

<web-app ...>

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name>TestService</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>hello.HelloBean</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>TestService</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>   
</web-app>

I will be using the class HelloBean in different war-archives: archive1.war, archive2.war, archive3.war, archive4.war. I want the Webservice to be deployed when I deploy archive1.war and archive2.war but not when I deploy archive3.war and archive4.war

I want to solve the problem in the following way:

First I want to remove the @WebService annotation.

Second I want to use a deployment-descriptor in archive1.war and archive2.war to activate the Webservice. I will not use the deployment-descriptor in archive3.war and archive4.war.

So my question is:

How must the deployent-descriptor look like?

Can I replace the @WebService annotation with a simple deployment descriptor? As I mentioned the wsdl-file should be generated by the application server. I have seen people providing a webservices.xml, a wsdl.xml file and a mapping.xml file, but I do not want to provide the wsdl.xml file and the mapping.xml file because providing these files is not necessary when I use the @WebService annotation. So I simply want a deployment descriptor that is equivalent to the @WevService annotation. Is this possible?

Regards,

Walter, Austria