Deploying a Web Service

You deploy a web service endpoint to the GlassFish Server just as you would any servlet, stateless session bean (SLSB), or application.

For complex services with dependent classes, user specified WSDL files, or other advanced features, autodeployment of an annotated file is not sufficient.

The GlassFish Server deployment descriptor files sun-web.xml and sun-ejb-jar.xml provide optional web service enhancements in the webservice-endpoint and webservice-description elements, including a debugging-enabled subelement that enables the creation of a test page. The test page feature is enabled by default and described in The Web Service URI, WSDL File, and Test Page.

For more information about deployment, autodeployment, and deployment descriptors, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide. For more information about the asadmin deploy command, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Reference Manual.