The Java EE 5 Tutorial

Declaring a Reference to a Web Service

The @WebServiceRef annotation provides a reference to a web service. The following example shows uses the @WebServiceRef annotation to declare a reference to a web service. WebServiceRef uses the wsdlLocation element to specify the URI of the deployed service’s WSDL file:

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import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef;
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public class ResponseServlet extends HTTPServlet {
@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation=
    "http://localhost:8080/helloservice/hello?wsdl")
static HelloService service;