JAX-WS fragment

JAX-WS adds support for both a polling and callback mechanism when calling Web services asynchronously. 

Using a polling model, a client can issue a request, get a response object back, which is polled to determine if the server has responded. When the server responds, the actual response is retrieved.

Using the callback model, the client provides a callback handler to accept and process the inbound response object. 

Both the polling and callback models enable the client to focus on continuing to process work without waiting for a response to return, while providing for a more dynamic and efficient model to invoke Web services.

 @WebService
      public interface CreditRatingService {
            // sync operation
            Score      getCreditScore(Customer customer);
            // async operation with polling
            Response<Score> getCreditScoreAsync(Customer customer);
            // async operation with callback
            Future<?> getCreditScoreAsync(Customer customer, 
               AsyncHandler<Score> handler);
      }