From: Mark Hansen <marklists_at_javector.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:26:42 -0400

My understanding is that deployment descriptor values should overide
annotations. However, I am experiencing the opposite behavoir in the
following deployment.

I create an EJB-WAR to deploy a web service (EJB endpoint) for the
following class:

@WebService(serviceName="MyHelloService", name="MyHelloPortType",
    portName="MyHelloServicePort")
@Stateless(name="MyHelloEJB")
public class Hello {
 
  public String sayHello(String s) {
    return "Hello: " + s;
   
  }
 
}


Here is the sun-ejb-jar.xml that I package with this class in the EJB-JAR:

<sun-ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <ejb>
      <ejb-name>MyHelloEJB</ejb-name>
      <webservice-endpoint>
        <port-component-name>MyHelloEJB</port-component-name>
        <endpoint-address-uri>/deployssb/Hello</endpoint-address-uri>
      </webservice-endpoint>
    </ejb>
  </enterprise-beans>
</sun-ejb-jar>


However, when I deploy the EJB-JAR, the web service endpoint is at the
the following URI: /MyHelloService/MyHelloPortType and, furthermore the
following sun-ejb-jar has been generated (in the
$GLASSFISH_HOME/glassfish/domains/domain1/generated/xml directory):

<sun-ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <unique-id>75030031306981376</unique-id>
    <ejb>
      <ejb-name>MyHelloEJB</ejb-name>
      <pass-by-reference>false</pass-by-reference>
      <is-read-only-bean>false</is-read-only-bean>
      <refresh-period-in-seconds>-1</refresh-period-in-seconds>
      <cmt-timeout-in-seconds>0</cmt-timeout-in-seconds>
      <gen-classes/>
      <webservice-endpoint>
        <port-component-name>MyHelloPortType</port-component-name>
        
<endpoint-address-uri>/MyHelloService/MyHelloPortType</endpoint-address-uri>
        <service-qname>
          <namespaceURI>http://samples/</namespaceURI>
          <localpart>MyHelloService</localpart>
        </service-qname>
        <debugging-enabled>true</debugging-enabled>
      </webservice-endpoint>
    </ejb>
  </enterprise-beans>
</sun-ejb-jar>

As you can see here, the endpoint-address-uri value that I provided in
my sun-ejb-jar.xml has been overidden by a URI derived from the
annotations. I believe that this behavior is incorrect, and that the
endpoint-addrees-uri value provided in the original sun-ejb-jar.xml
should overide the annotations. Otherwise, how can you specify an
endpoint address when deploying an EJB endpoint? The only GlassFish
mechanism for that is to use the sun-ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor.

Please let me know if I am mistaken.

Thanks,

Mark