Difference between @WebService and @WebServiceProvider annotation?

[Mahabub Ali Mohammad]

Hi All,

Can anyone explain me the difference between annotating a java service with @WebService and @WebServiceProvider?

Thanks in Advance
-Mahabub Ali Mohammad.

[Ivan Krizsan]

Hi!
The annotation WebServiceProvider is used in endpoint classes implementing the javax.xml.ws.Provider<T> to associate the class with a <wsdl:service> element and a <wsdl:port> element in specified WSDL document. Such an endpoint works directly with (SOAP) messages or (SOAP) message payloads.
Note that the Provider<T> interface only has one single method, which in an implementing class will provide all the different messages received by the endpoint, while a class annotated with the WebService has one method for each kind of message the endpoint class can receive.
A class can either be annotated with the WebService or the WebServiceProvider annotation, but not both.

[Mahabub Ali Mohammad]

Thanks Navi

Regards,
Mahabub Ali Mohammad.

[anas alsarairah]

hello

do you mean that the application server wont generate a WSDL file for web services annonated using @WebServiceProvider ?

thanks

[Ivan Krizsan]

Hi!

anas alsarairah wrote:
do you mean that the application server wont generate a WSDL file for web services annonated using @WebServiceProvider ?

Correct - there is no way the application server knows what operations etc are supported by a web service annotated with @WebServiceProvider.
You may, however, supply an existing WSDL.
Best wishes!