Do we need to generate stubs while writing a JAX WS client

Question

While we write a EJB client we need to generate EJB stub classes based on the EJB Remote interface. These stub classes are resposible to serialize/deserialize the object parameters and return values.

When we use a JAX WS client, do we still need to generate stub classes to marshall and unmarshall Java <--> XML?

Or will it be done by the Websphere JAX WS implementation classes somehow automatically under the hood?

Answer 1

If you mean that you need something extra to convert the XML message (SOAP message) to Java object and viceversa, you don't.

JAX-WS converts the incoming SOAP message (actually a XML request) to Java object. And transforms the Java objects to XML response for send to the web service client.

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The conversion in both directions is performed by JAXB.

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