The xrpcc Tool

The xrpcc tool creates the following for you:

  • The stubs and ties.

  • A server configuration file. This file is not part of the JAX-RPC specification as such, but it is used by the Tomcat Web server.

  • If the Web service is a JAX-RPC implementation, the xrpcc tool generates the WSDL document describing the Web service from the RMI interface.

  • If the Web service is not a JAX-RPC implementation, you can use the xrpcc tool to generate the RMI interfaces that your JAX-RPC client can use to connect to the Web service. The xrpcc tool will use the WSDL file to generate the RMI interfaces.

To generate these files, the xrpcc tool reads a configuration XML file called config.xml. Depending on whether you start with the RMI interface or the WSDL document, ...

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