Viewing web services deployment descriptors in the administrative console
You can view the web services client and server deployment descriptors for a deployed web services application. You can view the bindings in the deployment descriptors.
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- The web service description including the name, WSDL file, WSDL file location and the mapping file.
- The port description, including the port component name, the WSDL port, the service endpoint interface that indicate the service's bindings, and the EJB that is used to implement the web service.
After you have developed a web service that contains all the necessary artifacts, created the deployment descriptors from the deployment descriptor templates, configured the deployment descriptors, and deployed the web services application into WebSphere Application Server; now you can view the deployment descriptors and bindings in the administrative console.
Similar to Java™ API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) web services, you can use deployment descriptors to describe JAX-WS web services. For JAX-WS web services, the use of the webservices.xml deployment descriptor is optional because you can use annotations to specify all of the information that is contained within the deployment descriptor file. You can use the deployment descriptor file to augment or override existing JAX-WS annotations. Any information that you define in the webservices.xml deployment descriptor overrides any corresponding information that is specified by annotations.