Module jakarta.xml.ws

Package jakarta.jws

Annotation Interface WebMethod

@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target(METHOD)
public @interface WebMethod

Customizes a method that is exposed as a Web Service operation. The associated method must be public and its parameters return value, and exceptions must follow the rules defined in Jakarta XML Web Services Specification, section 5. The method is not required to throw java.rmi.RemoteException.

Since:

1.6

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element	Description
String	action	The action for this operation.
boolean	exclude	Marks a method to NOT be exposed as a web method.
String	operationName	Name of the wsdl:operation matching this method.

Element Details

operationName

String operationName

Name of the wsdl:operation matching this method.

Returns:

the name of the wsdl:operation

Default:

""

action

String action

The action for this operation.

For SOAP bindings, this determines the value of the soap action.

Returns:

the action

Default:

""

exclude

boolean exclude

Marks a method to NOT be exposed as a web method.

Used to stop an inherited method from being exposed as part of this web service. If this element is specified, other elements MUST NOT be specified for the @WebMethod.

This member-value is not allowed on endpoint interfaces.

Returns:

value of true to mark the method to not be exposed or false otherwise

Since:

2.0

Default:

false