Developing JAXWS Service for deployment in GlassFish/JEE 5 compliant container

In the newer version of JEE you can use annotations for creating Web Service, i wanted to try this feature so i did create this simple JAX WS service that takes name/part of the name of contact as input and return list of contacts with same last name. You can download the JAXWS service from here First i did create a ContactWS.java class that looks like this

import java.util.List;

import javax.jws.*;
@WebService(name="ContactWS", serviceName="ContactWS", 
targetNamespace="http://webspherenotes.com")
public class ContactWS {
  
  @WebMethod(operationName="searchContact")
  @WebResult(name="contactList",partName="contactList")
  public List searchContact(String lastName) {
    ContactDAO contactDAO = new ContactDAOImpl();
    return contactDAO.searchContact(lastName);
  }

}

The ContactWS class implements web service. The next step is to declare this class as servlet in web.xml like this

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
  version="2.5">

  <display-name>Contact Web Service</display-name>

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>ContactWS</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.webspherenotes.ws.ContactWS</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ContactWS</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/contactws/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

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Once the application is deployed in the GlassFish server you can access it by going to http://localhost:9000/ManageContactWS/contactws