Generate stubs for EJB3.1 bean exposed as webservice

[Simon Joseph Aquilina]

Hello, I am trying to use Maven to generate stubs for an EJB3.1 bean exposed as a Webservice. My example is as follows; I have an EAR with a JAR containing my EJB3.1 bean and a WAR which contains a Servlet that access this bean as a webservice. The bean code is as follows:

@Remote
@WebService
public interface IHelloBean {

	String sayHello();
}

@WebService(endpointInterface="edu.sayhello.ejb.IHelloBean", serviceName="HelloService")
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT)
@Stateless
public class HelloBean implements IHelloBean{

	@WebMethod
	public String sayHello(){
		return "Hello!!";
	}
	
}

From the Servlet I call the webservice as follows:

Service service = Service.create(
				new URL("http://localhost:8080/HelloService/HelloBean?WSDL"),
				new QName("http://ejb.sayhello.edu/","HelloService") );
IHelloBean myBean = service.getPort(IHelloBean.class);	

This works fine. However on some books and the Internet I also found examples using @WebReference to inject an instance in an object of type HelloService as follows.

@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation=
"http://localhost:8080/HelloService/HelloBean?WSDL")
private static HelloService helloService

…

IHelloBean myBean = helloService.getIHelloBeanPort();
myBean.sayHello();

However I cannot understand how to generate HelloService from HelloBean. From the Internet I found out that JBossWS - JAX-WS Tools wsconsume will generate HelloService.java when given a WSDL file. However I can't seem to make it work when giving it a bean. From my maven project I tried adding the following plugin definition (glassfish project):

<plugin>
                
	<groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>

	<artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.2</version>
          
	<configuration>
                
		<verbose>true</verbose>
          
	</configuration>
           
	<executions>
               
		<execution>
                        
			<goals>
                      
				<goal>wsgen</goal>
            
			</goals>
  
		</execution>
 
	</executions>
 
</plugin>

However this only generate classes to represent all methods in HelloBean and their return values. In short I still did not manage to generate HelloService from HelloBean so that from my Servlet I can avoid boilerplate code.

Does anyone know how I can generate stubs for an EJB3.1 bean most importantly the xxxService class? Or at least correct me if my reasoning regarding this class is wrong.