As might be clear by my latest posts I am currently working on a project where we use Glassfish and EJB3 as platform for our JEE application. One thing that we had to decide upon was the WebService framework we were going to use. There are quite some options available but I decided to have a look at Metro, the JAX-WS reference implementation. Also due to the fact that it is integrated with EJB3 and Glassfish.
To create my ‘HelloWorld’ service with Metro and Maven2 I used this post as a guideline. I am also going to work top-down (WSDL -> Java approach) so I will be starting with an existing WSDL and then generate/create the web service interface for that. Although the post I used as a guideline is very detailed I ran into some issues, mostly the result of using different versions of dependencies and plugins. In this post I show the steps I made to get it working. I am using Glassfish-v2ur2 (comes with Netbeans 6.5) , JDK1.5 and Maven 2.0.9.

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Like I promised here I will show my project setup in which I test my EJB3 beans with OpenEJB. Although there are a lot of examples provided with OpenEJB I ran into some minor issues that I will explain here. I assume the Maven2 basics are known so I won’t go into much detail about that.

This is my stack:

• JDK1.5
• Maven2
• EJB3 project
• Glassfish EJB Container

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A year ago I posted how you could create a EJB3 webservice and deploy it on JBoss with Maven. Currently I am doing a similar thing at my project, but this time I deploy it to Glassfish. The creation of the web serive is similar but for the deployment you will need another plugin (if you want Maven to deploy the webservice, of course).
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