Welcome to the TaskTracker WebService Example This is a sample application demonstrating the implementation of JAX-WS 2.0 web services with the following characteristics: - build on domain model, DAOs and service layer of TaskTracker2006. - XML-representation of domain objects is directly used in the web service interface. Domain objects are annotated with simple JAXB 2.0 annotations to guide Java-XML binding and produce a correct, functional XML representation. - web service layer as EJB 3.0 local session beans exposed through JAX-WS 2.0 annotations as web service endpoints - Runs on Sun Java System Application Server 9 PE preview release from February 2006. Since this release's Java EE 5 implementation is in many respects incompatible to that of JBoss 4.0.4RC1 (in terms of Java package names for annotations, the capabilities of the TopLink persistence provider, etc.) this sample application is stripped of all persistent data access from TaskTracker2006. What remains are the domain objects themselves, but they are (compared to TaskTracker2006) no longer EJB 3.0 entities. Gerald Loeffler March 2006