Exposing a custom method as a web service
Service-enabling an application module allows you, among others, to expose custom application module methods as web services. This is one way for service consumers to consume the service-enabled application module. The other possibilities are accessing the application module by another application module, and accessing it through a Service Component Architecture (SCA) composite. Service-enabling an application module allows access to the same application module both through web service clients and interactive web user interfaces. In this recipe, we will go over the steps involved in service-enabling an application module by exposing a custom application module method to its service interface.
Getting ready
This recipe was developed using the HRComponents workspace, which was created in the Overriding remove() to delete associated children entities recipe in Chapter 2, Dealing with Basics: Entity Objects. The HRComponents workspace requires a database...
