How to Migrate OC4J EJB Web service to Weblogic

Question

Hello,
We have a J2EE app developed under OC4J that needs to be migrated to weblogic 10.x. It uses web services mapped to EJB's with the oracle.j2ee.ws.SessionBeanWebService class, example setup:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CreditCardManager</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.j2ee.ws.SessionBeanWebService</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>jndi-name</param-name>
<param-value>CreditCardManagerBean</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
Can someone point me to any docs on how to create the equivalent objects in Weblogic?
Thanks,
Leor

Answer 1

Microsoft webservices uses HTTP sessions to maintain state. That means that the webservice sends a token to the client to be passed back on subsequent calls.
Unfortunately, the webservice control in 8.1 doesn't know how to send the session token back to the MS webservice. The webservice control knows how to talk SOAP only. It doesn't know about session tokens. The reason for this is the different protocols available to transmit SOAP. Most of them are not HTTP session aware.
Workshop webservices uses conversation ID's that are contained within the SOAP header to maintain state. That way, we don't have the dependency on the session state for maintaining state.
The way to handle Microsoft's stateful webservice implementation is to create a custom webservice control that uses an HTTP client. Query the HTTP client for the session cookie. Store the session token and send it with subsequent calls to the MS webservice.
Thanks,
David Gorton
Workshop Customer Centric Engineering