JAX-WS Enhancements

This section covers the extra functionality relating to the JAX-WS implementation provided in Payara Server.

Additional Scanning Locations

Payara Server scans for specific JAX-WS files in locations further to those specified in the JAX-WS specification. Additional directories and sources are scanned are documented here.

`jax-ws-catalog.xml`

The JAX-WS 2.2 specification states that the jax-ws-catalog.xml file should be searched for in the META-INF directory of a deployed WAR file relative to the classpath. Since the classpath of a WAR can be found in /WEB-INF/classes/, this means that this file is expected at /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/jax-ws-catalog.xml (from the root of the WAR). Payara Server also searches for this file at /WEB-INF/jax-ws-catalog.xml.