Why does my web service web.xml reference a class that is not a servlet?

Question

In jDeveloper 10.1.3, I created the simplest web service I could think of. I created a HelloWorld class that has one method that accepts a name as a parameter and returns "Hello " + name. Using the wizards, I was able to get it to run just fine in my development environment. However, if I generate a WAR file and deploy it to Tomcat 5.5, it chokes on the web.xml. Here it is...
<pre>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<servlet>
<description>Web Service MyHelloWorldServiceSoapHttpPort</description>
<display-name>Web Service MyHelloWorldServiceSoapHttpPort</display-name>
<servlet-name>MyHelloWorldServiceSoapHttpPort</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.dex.b2b.HelloWorld</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MyHelloWorldServiceSoapHttpPort</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>MyHelloWorldServiceSoapHttpPort</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
</pre>
The servlet-class value is my simple HelloWorld class, not a servlet. How is this suppose to run, if the servlet-class value is not a servlet? It certainly did not run in Tomcat 5.5. I can't get it to run on Oracle App Server 10.1.2 either.
Thanks

Answer 1

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