Spring WS separately deploy web service and busine

Question

I am pretty new to spring and currently I was able to create a complete web service with spring-ws. Now I want to separate the functionalities of my web service in to two separate web services. But except the service layer there are other spring components (business layer) which are common to both of these services.

So my question is there a way to make spring web service depend on another spring project (business layer)? If you can provide such example or a tutorial where a spring web service depends on another spring project it will be really helpful.

Thanks in advance.

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UPDATE

I could achieve above by building my business layer as a jar file and adding it as a dependency to the service. But now my supervisor wants me to deploy the business layer in a separate server. But I could not find any information on how to handle communication here between web service and the business layer. Any idea?