Using custom objects in Webservice

In this blog post I am going to discuss how to use the custom objects in the web service. This EmployeeService will have two operations namely addEmployee() and getEmployees(). Let’s start coding.

EmployeeService.java (service interface)

package com.sri.service;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;

import javax.jws.WebService;

import com.sri.model.Employee;

@WebService

public interface EmployeeService {

       @WebMethod

       public void addEmployee(Employee e);

       @WebMethod

       public Employee[] getEmployees();

}

EmployeeServiceImpl.java (service Implementation)

package com.sri.service;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.jws.WebService;

import com.sri.model.Employee;

@WebService(endpointInterface="com.sri.service.EmployeeService")

public class EmployeeServiceImpl implements EmployeeService{

       private ArrayList<Employee> employee;

       @Override

       public void addEmployee(Employee e) {

              if(employee == null)

                     employee = new ArrayList<Employee>();

              employee.add(e);

       }

       @Override

       public Employee[] getEmployees() {

              return (Employee[])employee.toArray();

       }

}

Employee.java (pojo class)

package com.sri.model;

public class Employee {

       private int empId;

       private String empName;

       private Department deptId;

       public int getEmpId() {

              return empId;

       }

       public void setEmpId(int empId) {

              this.empId = empId;

       }

       public String getEmpName() {

              return empName;

       }

       public void setEmpName(String empName) {

              this.empName = empName;

       }

       public Department getDeptId() {

              return deptId;

       }

       public void setDeptId(Department deptId) {

              this.deptId = deptId;

       }

}

Department.java (Pojo class)

package com.sri.model;

public class Department {

       private int deprtmentId;

       private String departmentName;

       public int getDeprtmentId() {

              return deprtmentId;

       }

       public void setDeprtmentId(int deprtmentId) {

              this.deprtmentId = deprtmentId;

       }

       public String getDepartmentName() {

              return departmentName;

       }

       public void setDepartmentName(String departmentName) {

              this.departmentName = departmentName;

       }

      

}

sun-jaxws.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<endpoints xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime" version="2.0">

  <endpoint name="Employee"

      implementation="com.sri.service.EmployeeServiceImpl"

      url-pattern="/employee"/>

</endpoints>

For deploying this webservice in tomcat you can refer.

Now the webservice would be available in the following location.

http://localhost:8080/Employee/employee?wsdl

In the WSDL we used to define the input arguments and return types. If the input arguments are custom objects then how it get declared in WSDL? In this web service we are using two custom objects Employee and Department. These objects are defined in the another schema file associated with WSDL. See the line highlighted in the WSDL