Can we implement method overloading in web service class?

Question

I would like to implement method overloading in the Java web service class as follows:

public String myMethod(User user)
{
    // My code
} 

public String m         


        

Answer 1

Overloading the web service methods is not difficult. With Axis 1.4 at least it is fairly simple. If there are two overloaded methods in the service like below:

public String myMethod(String firstName, String lastName) throws RemoteException
public String myMethod(String name) throws RemoteException

Then a request like this:

http://localhost:8080/services/testService?method=myMethod&name= 

will invoke the second method.

And a request like this one:

http://localhost:8080//services/testService?method=myMethod&firstName=&lastName=

will invoke the first method.

The resolution is done by Axis.