A bank designed its first-generation web-based banking system around a Java technology rich
client application that interacts with server-side service objects implemented as stateful session
beans in a portable Java EE application. For their second-generation system, the company wants
to open the architecture to other types of clients. The company is considering exposing its
existing stateful session bean service as a web service. Which statement is true?
A.
Session beans cannot be exposed as web services.
B.
Stateful session beans cannot be exposed as web services.
C.
Stateful session beans are automatically exposed as web services.
D.
Stateful session beans annotated with @WebService are exposed as web services.