EJB Components into WebServices

[Saket Barve]

Hello,

We have an up and running system using EJB on Websphere. A new requirement has come up, requiring us to expose the EJB business layer as a webservice in order to enable another system to use ours.

What are the options available? In view of the experienced folks which approach would be most suited?

One way I believe is to create a wrapper around the EJB and expose this wrapper to SOAP. Any feedback will be most welcome.

Regards,
Saket

[ May 31, 2005: Message edited by: Saket Barve ]
[ May 31, 2005: Message edited by: Saket Barve ]

[Masoud Kalali]

Hi
If you mean Session Beans then there are some standard for exposing an stateless bean Endpoint interface , WSAD and RAD do it automatically for you.

But if you wanna expose some entity ? bean operations as a web service then , i think, best way is to wrap then with some session beans.


just my 2 cents.

[Saket Barve]

Thanks, Masoud. Your two cents certainly count

Regards,
Saket