Sam wrote:
> Well the specs seems to use the term endpoint and implementation
> interchangably everywhere.
In terms of the J2EE component model, service endpoint is a
component developed and deployed (on a container) to represent
a web service endpoint with a specific interface (termed service
endpoint interface). This deployed endpoint is described through
WSDL. This endpoint component could either be servlet based web
component or stateless session bean.
As part of the development of a service endpoint component that
is to be deployed on servlet container, the developer implements
a service endpoint [implementation] class that implements the
service endpoint interface. This service endpoint class combined
with the standard packaging and deployment descriptor constitutes
a servlet based service endpoint component. This standard
packaging and deployment model would be specified in the JSR-109
targeted at the J2EE 1.4 platform.
I hope this clarifies.
Regards,
Rahul