@Target(value={TYPE,METHOD,FIELD})
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Documented
public @interface WebServiceRef

The WebServiceRef annotation is used to define a reference to a web service and (optionally) an injection target for it. It can be used to inject both service and proxy instances. These injected references are not thread safe. If the references are accessed by multiple threads, usual synchronization techinques can be used to support multiple threads.

Web service references are resources in the Java EE 5 sense. The annotations (for example, Addressing) annotated with meta-annotation WebServiceFeatureAnnotation can be used in conjunction with WebServiceRef. The created reference MUST be configured with annotation's web service feature.

For example, in the code below, the injected StockQuoteProvider proxy MUST have WS-Addressing enabled as specifed by the Addressing annotation.

public class MyClient {
       @Addressing
       @WebServiceRef(StockQuoteService.class)
       private StockQuoteProvider stockQuoteProvider;
       ...
    }

If a JAX-WS implementation encounters an unsupported or unrecognized annotation annotated with the WebServiceFeatureAnnotation that is specified with WebServiceRef, an ERROR MUST be given.

public abstract String name

type

public abstract Class<?> type

The Java type of the resource. For field annotations, the default is the type of the field. For method annotations, the default is the type of the JavaBeans property. For class annotations, there is no default and this MUST be specified.

Default:

java.lang.Object.class

mappedName

public abstract String mappedName

Default:

""

value

public abstract Class<? extends Service> value

The service class, alwiays a type extending javax.xml.ws.Service. This element MUST be specified whenever the type of the reference is a service endpoint interface.

Default:

javax.xml.ws.Service.class

wsdlLocation

public abstract String wsdlLocation

A URL pointing to the WSDL document for the web service. If not specified, the WSDL location specified by annotations on the resource type is used instead.

Default:

""

lookup

public abstract String lookup

A portable JNDI lookup name that resolves to the target web service reference.

Since:

JAX-WS 2.2

Default:

""