The @SOAPBinding annotation can be used to configure the soap binding styles.

You can use the @SOAPBinding annotation on the SEI and any of its methods. The settings of the method’s annotation takes precedence.

The @SOAPBinding annotation has three attributes: Style, Use and ParameterStyle.

• Values for style can be Style.DOCUMENT (Default) or Style.RPC.

• Values for use are Use.Literal (Default) or Use.Encoded.

SOAP Binding can be done using two styles: DOCUMENT and RPC. This is denoted in the wsdl as style in the binding section. 

The @SOAPBinding annotation can be used over an SEI (separate interface or class) to configure the soap binding styles, when developing a web service bottom up. Default is DOCUMENT. Annotate the SEI with @SOAPBinding(Style=Style.RPC) to get the RPC style. Generate a wsdl both with DOCUMENT and RPC styles and refer to them in parallel while going through these notes.

1. Create a Web Service with a method that accept a String (as parameter) and Echo it back (return it).

   • Deploy the service on Glassfish application server

   • View and analyze the WSDL file and find the relationships with the class.

   • Test it using the Glassfish webservice tester

   • View and analyze SOAP request and SOAP response displayed by the tester.

We will quickly review the results of the lab @ http://javajee.com/lab-deploying-a-simple-soap-web-service-in-glassfish-....

The Web Service

We had deployed the below simple web service in Glassfish server using eclipse and all it took was to use an annotation @WebService to make it a web service. 

package com.javajee.webservices.soap;

Prerequisites

Before trying out this example, you will need to download and install Java EE 7 SDK which comes with GlassFish Open Source Edition 4 (currently 4.1.1) and then configure eclipse to deploy Java EE applications directly to GlassFish Server.

For details, refer to http://www.javajee.com/configuring-glassfish-server-4-with-eclipse-to-bu....