I need to "dive into JAX-WS programming".
So, I played around with Netbeans, after 20 or so erroneous attempts,
finally managed to let a web service client execute a web service.
I noticed, that a lot of code is generated, especially JAXB classes
for the web service response.
My current task is, to write a web service and web client completely
by hand.
Is JAXB required at all? Is is part of the standard anyway? What would happen without it?
EDIT:
Seems that the answer is given here
You can see Developing Web Services with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Platform
I took a wsdl and used eclipse to generate the service, serviceLocator, ws interface, ws binding stub, ws proxy, and then the client code. I added a main method and was able to hit the webservice successfully.
I used this tutorial as a guide with the url below and no, there are no jaxb objects as I'm not pulling any objects back in the simple example I used. I was just hitting some methods that pulled back a boolean value.
http://px.pats.no/px/Eclipse_tutorial.html
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I'm almost new to web services in Java.
Our company has previously used IBM Process Server to handle the interactions between SCA objects. Due to some reasons we've decided to give up IBM Process Server and therefore we started to migrate our current integrations to EJB.
Just to make myself more clear I've attached a simple schema describing my current task. This is a process deployed at IBM Process Server:
I need to develop an EJB, which also acts as a JAX-WS web service and receives an SDO DataObject from the JAX-WS client service, then makes some additional logic and sends the SOAP-request to another web service.
I'm totally don't know how to make my EJB receive a DataObject via SOAP. I have a WSDL-file, describing SOAP request and response formats.
I also found an article, describing the way to solve this using IBM RAD JAX-RPC webservice from a WSDL with an SDO facade, but the article seems to be outdated.
Is there any way to create the service without using JAXB-bounded POJOs, but with SDO? In case of no, how to handle it using JAXB in a proper way? Thanks in advance.
Solved!
During my searchings I figured out, that it's neccessary to generate a bean skeleton, change all the web methods signatures to receive and return JAXB-binded POJOs, generated from WSDL and then transforming it to Data Objects if needed.
JAXB takes care of the all marshalling/unmarshalling staff. I just needed to RTFM a little bit.
I was just wondering, whether is it possible to deploy a JAX-WS and access it from a browser without the need to install any software or proxy classes ..
Of course, JAX-WS is just a library built on top of SOAP, which is built on top of XML, which is built on top of HTTP (duh!)
If you have SOAP web services (the fact that it was developed using JAX-WS is irrelevant), any application capable of sending and receiving XML over HTTP can call it. We are successfully accessing our back-end web services using AJAX POST (the web services must be deployed on the same domain as your front-end due to same-origin-policy).
As far as I've seen it's not possible, since you need to have proxy classes in order to call the JAX-WS functions ... but maybe I'm wrong !
I am doing a project using Java and BPEL. I successfully created webservices in Java and integrated them using BPEL. All i generated a single output WSDL file. Now, I have to use this output WSDL file in my application using SOAP communication. How can i do that? Is there any help out side for such scenarios? Walkthroughs are really appreciated..
Depending on the architecture of your application (Standard Java, Spring-based, ...) there might or not be a documented procedure to consume a SOAP-based webservice.
On the other hand, you're always free to pick a webservice development framework to handle that. For instance, you could pick either CXF or AXIS2 (I believe these are the two most popular frameworks for Java WebServices). Each of these frameworks provides a tool called "wsdl2java" that helps you generate client-side/server-side/both Java classes. Then, you can easily add those classes and the requireds libraries to your application.
Having used CXF in the past, It even does provide several way to consume a webservice
Generating the client-side classes
Using CXF dynamic client factory : basically, you'll retrieve an endpoint proxy from a factory object.
Hope that'll help
I start with SoapUI (or downloadable from sourceforge), that will let you consume the WSDL and fire off requests against your server. Typically I'm hitting someone else's webservice, and trying to figure out what the data looks like before I start wiring my code together, but in your case its just a verification that the services would be/are working.
Then, as #KHY said, you can automatically convert the wsdl into java with a wsdl2java and start coding (look under the Related list on the right panel of this SO screen)
If it is a Java application, then the easiest way to consume a service is using JAX-WS. It's really easy to create a Web service client from WSDL.
See this link
Once you deploy the BPEL project on server, then refer the WSDL with http://server:port/application/YourBPELProjectService?WSDL in the consuming application. You will need to write different client code based on the BPEL type - Synchronous, Asynchronous etc.
Is it possible to have an Axis 1.1 client talk to an Axis2 web service endpoint? From my understanding, web services work by passing XML SOAP messages back and forth using the schema specified by the service's WSDL, but I'm unsure as to whether or not these versions of Axis utilize different versions of the web service specification that would stop them from talking. Any thoughts?
Alright, using Axis 1.1 to communicate with an Axis2 web service works just fine. I generated the stubs using Axis 1.1, created a Client class, and tested. Axis 1.1's API doesn't offer some of the same functionality that my previous Axis 1.4 allows, specifically in the ParameterDesc class, where you can specify if web service method parameters are nillable or their minOccurs, but my calls seemed to work just fine.
All in all, it can be done with (what appear to be) basic WSDL definitions, however, I'm unsure as to whether or not Axis2 utilizes new functionality that Axis 1.1 cannot accommodate due to Axis 1.1's aged API...
Oh, and one last note, I needed to use SOAP 1.1 stubs for my request. I'm not 100% sure why since my responses were coming back as SOAP 1.2, but there you have it.
In general your understanding is correct,i.e. that if a client adheres to the WSDL description it should be able to contact the web service.
But Axis1 and Axis2 use by default different encodings which are not compatible.
Axis1 uses RPC (which is obsolete) and Axis2 uses doc/lit.
So the oposite of what you ask i.e. an Axis2 client communicating with an Axis1 server will not work.
For the reverse (and what you ask in the post) I am not really sure.
Did you try to generate the stubs using the WSDL?
Did you get any errors? If you got no errors in stub creation, I believe you could give it a try.
I made a web project in Java, using Java-WS.
How can I invoke service methods through HTTP only.
I don't want to generate (or worse write) any java web clients, and similar stuff.
I'd just like to invoke the method with a HTTP request.
And parse the result (manually) from response.
In .NET web services I invoke methods just with:
http://serviceUrl/serviceName.asmx/operationName?parametars=...
How to do the same thing in java + tomcat?
Edit: Let me rephrase my question.
So this is what I have done so far:
Created a web application (btw. using NetBeans IDE)
Added all the necessary source files
Added web service classes with WebMethods defined
I deploy the app on tomcat and it deploys fine.
Now, what do I need to do to be able to invoke my WebMethods via HTTP?
Typing:
http://localhost:8084/MyService/MyMethod
doesn't work.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm not really a Java guru, I've been working mostly on .NET.
Multiple possibilities:
use new URL(url).openConnection().getInputStream()
use apache http components
use a REST client (if you invoke restful services), like http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/">this, or these. Or spring's RestTemplate
In this case, if you want to do an HTTP Web Service that returns an HTTP 200 Web Response, why not look at doing a RESTFul application?
JavaWorld briefly explains the role/use of REST. There's been similar questions on REST tutorials in SO. I hope this helps you.
Apache CXF has a 'plain http binding', but we recommend that people write JAX-RS services, instead. They are very, very, simple. However, the plain HTTP binding is there and supports GET.
I generate a RESTful Web Service in NetBeans by clicking on "Generate SOAP-over-HTTP Wrapper" in my service context menu.
It generated successfully, compiles and deploys fine.
But I still can't figure out how to make a HTTP invoke