An SOA Case Study: Integrating Adobe LiveCycle Forms using JBossWS

JBossWS is a framework which implements the JAX-WS 2.0 (a replacement for the earlier JAX-RPC) specification and defines the programming/runtime model for implementing web services as a remoting mechanism for distributed service-oriented architectures. JBossWS is targeted at the Java SE 6/EE 5 platform and integrates with most current and earlier JBoss Application Server releases. In this article, We demonstrate how easy it is to use the JBossWS framework to harness the power of Java 5 annotations as well as endpoint associated metadata provided by JSR 181 annotations to develop, provide, consume and secure a service. The annotations ensure that the source code will be fairly simple and straightforward POJOs with the onus of processing falling to JBossWS tools at the client and server to create the contract and infrastructure plumbing needed at deployment and runtime. In order to illustrate the concepts, We will use the example of a real life service that allows different systems within our organization (a State Government Agency) to integrate with a centralized Forms system to retrieve, deliver and process intelligent documents to and from end users.