While it’s well known that Websphere’s JAX-WS implementation is based on Axis2, I have had trouble finding information how to set “scope” for the service.
In axis 2 scope can be defined using services.xml. Is this file also available in Websphere?
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/axis2config.html
scope: (Optional Attribute) The time period during which runtime information of the deployed services will be available. Scope is of several types- “application”, “soapsession”, “transportsession”, “request”. The default value (if you don’t enter any value) will be “request”
It seems it is possible to do what you want in WebSphere (not using services.xml):
Configuring the scope of a Web service port using wsadmin scripting
Did not try it myself, also, could not find such settings in the admin console or deployment descriptor of some kind but that might be possible as well.