The JAX-RPC deployment descriptor, webservices.xml
, provides metadata (such as names and descriptions of the SEIs, service beans, and WSDL documents) about all of the Web services in a given Web application.
The mapping file defines the association between a WSDL file and an SEI and implementation class, by mapping namespaces to Java packages. This mapping is used when serializing and deserializing XML files. There is a separate JAX-RPC mapping file for each Web service, and the name of each file reflects the method the service is based on. For example, if the method is getOrderStatus
, the mapping file for the Web services is named getOrderStatusMapping.xml
.