yap; even the JSR109 (Webservice's for J2EE) spec allow espose only the stateless EJB as web services.
Does axis supporting statefull beans as well. Srinath On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:24, Ekbote, Niranjan wrote: > Has Axis started supporting "Stateful" session beans? I thought for the EJB > provider, you can only work with "Stateless" session beans. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Hatton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:21 AM > To: Axis-User (E-mail) > Subject: Bug? Stateful Session EJB support > > Hi all, > > I have another issue with stateful session EJBs. > > In order to manage resources on the server, I want my client to have more > fine-grained control on the lifecycle of stateful EJBs. I thought I would be > able to do this by exposing the remove() method as a Web Service, but Axis > cannot find this method even if I hand-code it into the WSDL (it wouldn't > generate WSDL for the remove() method using Java2WSDL, but quite possibly > for the same root cause as described following). I found the culprit in the > section of code below. Obviously in the general case it would not be > desirable to expose java.* or javax.* methods, but > javax.ejb.EJBObject.remove() seems a reasonable one to me. > > Should I file a bug/enhancement request? > Should I move over to the axis-dev list? - I seem to have dug rather deep > into the code to discover this and it doesn't appear from archives etc. that > this use of Axis is all that common. > I *may* (no promises) have some time to fix this [I don't imagine my > workaround of commenting out this line is acceptable to the general Axis > community :)] - but am not sure what the "right" way to resolve this problem > is. > > Thanks > Keith > > > [org.apache.axis.description.ServiceDesc.java, line 914 et seq.] > > if (implClass.isInterface()) { > Class [] superClasses = implClass.getInterfaces(); > for (int i = 0; i < superClasses.length; i++) { > Class superClass = superClasses[i]; > if (!superClass.getName().startsWith("java.") && > !superClass.getName().startsWith("javax.") && > (stopClasses == null || > !stopClasses.contains(superClass.getName()))) { > loadServiceDescByIntrospectionRecursive(superClass); > } > } > } else { > Class superClass = implClass.getSuperclass(); > if (superClass != null && > !superClass.getName().startsWith("java.") && > !superClass.getName().startsWith("javax.") && > (stopClasses == null || > !stopClasses.contains(superClass.getName()))) { > loadServiceDescByIntrospectionRecursive(superClass); > } > } > > Keith Hatton > > Axiom Systems Limited Phone: +44 (0)118 929 4000 > 69 Suttons Business Park Fax: +44 (0)118 929 4001 > Sutton Park Avenue DDI: +44 (0)118 929 4225 > Reading E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Berkshire, RG6 1AZ Web: www.axiomsystems.com >
