Design

Exposing EJBs as Web Service endpoints makes the business logic and other functionality of a bean available to any client that can access a Web Service. As such, the endpoint mechanism encourages component reuse and makes the bean's business logic available to a wide range of clients.

OTN developers designed a feature that enables FBS users to access stock quotes from any platform, via any programming language, and over a firewall. Because Web Services enable clients to use its services in platform-independent, programming-language independent manner, the developers chose to expose a stateless session bean as a Web Service endpoint.