The article “Quickly creating, deploying and testing a WebService interface for ADF Business Components” (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/9726/quickly-creating-reploying-and-testing-a-webservice-interface-for-adf-business-components) that I recently published describes a way of very rapidly creating the HRService Web Service – an ADF BC driven WebService on top of the EmployeesView ViewObject that exposes the EMPLOYEES table in the HR schema through the Employee EntityObject. However, that article’s true purpose is to show how to create the deployment profile and deploy and test this service, either on the integrated WLS or on a standalone WebLogic Server, in the easiest way possible. This article is an extension of the previous one: it demonstrates how to extend the Service Interface with a custom method (or an operation in terms of WebServices).

As it happens, I required an operation for updating just the salary of an Employee. I will show how I create a custom method in the Application Module’s implementation class, how I added this method to the Client Interface of the Application Module and subsequently to the Service Interface. After redeploying – using the same deployment More >