@WebService(name = "StatefulEndpoint", targetNamespace = "http://org.jboss.ws/samples/wsaddressing", serviceName = "TestService")
@EndpointConfig(configName = "Standard WSAddressing Endpoint")
@HandlerChain(file = "WEB-INF/jaxws-handlers.xml")
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
public class StatefulEndpointImpl implements StatefulEndpoint, ServiceLifecycle
{
@WebMethod
public void addItem(String item)
{ ... }
  
@WebMethod
public void checkout()
{ ... }
  
@WebMethod
public String getItems()
{ ... }
}

It uses the JAX-WS Endpoint Configuration# Standard WSAddressing Endpoint to enable the server side addressing handler. It processes the incomming WS-Addressing header elements and provides access to them through the JSR-261 API.

The endpoint handler chain

<handler-chains xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee javaee_web_services_1_2.xsd">
  
<handler-chain>
<protocol-bindings>##SOAP11_HTTP</protocol-bindings>
<handler>
<handler-name>Application Server Handler</handler-name>
<handler-class>org.jboss.test.ws.jaxws.samples.wsaddressing.ServerHandler</handler-class>
</handler>
</handler-chain>
  
</handler-chains>

defines an application specific hander that assignes/processes stateful client ids.