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Interacting with the Java EE container in WAS
How, and to what extent, WSIF interacts with the Java EE container provided in WAS. We can interact with a container in any of the following ways:
Procedure
- Use the application server admin console to define web services to WAS. This task is described in Use WSIF to bind a JNDI reference to a web service. As part of the definition of a service, the administrator might define a "preferred port".
- Use the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) to make log and trace calls to the JRAS services in WAS, as described in Trace and logging WSIF.
- Use WSIF providers to access Java EE services. For example, use the EJB provider to access the JNDI and make calls to remote enterprise beans.
- Use WSIF to wrap the use of container services so that, when WSIF is run in an unmanaged (thin) environment, the operation can succeed.
Link a WSIF service to the underlying implementation of the service
Develop a WSIF service
Use complex types
Run WSIF as a client
Use WSIF to invoke web services