Java Web Service on Glassfish v3 using EJB

Question

I have a library which I would like to expose as a SOAP web service.

I am using GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1 (build 12).

I have read the tutorial here and here however these use an older version of Glassfish. Version 3 does not have a "Web Services" Node as noted here , which makes the tutorials somewhat hard to follow.

I have created an annotated POJO (EJB) using a normal Eclipse project, exported it as a jar file and have deployed it. Glassfish shows this as a "Web Application". I am unsure how to access these as a web service. At what URL can I access the web methods I have created?

Edit: Problems with using the generated WSDL are at: Using GlassFish v3, EJB and SOAPUI

Answer 1

I am unsure how to access these as a web service. At what URL can I access the web methods I have created?

Your web server on deployment will pulish a WSDL and will give you URL to that WSDL file published. Now client can access the Webservices from using that WSDL

Answer 2

Normally you would acces the generated WSDL file in the same address where the service is deployed + ?wsdl suffix. Eg http://localhost:8080/myapp/myservice?wsdl

Then you can use tools like SOAPUI to create XML requests suitable for that WSDL.