On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:17, Jeff Harmes wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a bunch of questions concerning the generation of WebService > for IBM Websphere: > > 1. Is my assumption correct that WebSphere expects Web Services > to be bundled in an EAR file?
No idea. Although I am using WebSphere at work at the moment, we've not needed to create any Web Services on it yet. I know you can deploy war files without having to bundle them into an ear, but I don't know how web services affect that. But since this isn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't feel too bad about my ignorance ;-) > 2. If that is true, my next observation is that XDoclet does not > provide any way to generate the required application.xml file. Is this > correct? Yes. There is no per-class info in the application.xml (unless you happen to build a separate ejb jar for each bean and a separate war file for each servlet, I suppose) so there's nowhere useful to put the @tags and little point in generating it. If we were to add a template it would probably consist entirely of merge files, and you can do that just as easily with "cat"... Alternatively (caution: silly answer ahead*), since application.xml contains information for each (ejb or web) module, and you'll likely have an xdoclet task for each module somewhere in your build script, you could create a target that runs the Ant script itself through some XSLT and generates the application.xml from those xdoclet task elements. You could even use <xsl:include> to add merge points. > 2a. If this statement is true, then are people just > hand-crafting an application.xml file and making sure it gets included > when packaging > their EAR files? Most likely. > 2b. There are WebSphere specific files that are created > for an EAR file: ibm-application-bnd.xmi and ibm-application-ext.xmi. > Again, > there are no facilities in XDoclet to generate these > files? If not, are people also hand-crafting these files as well? We certainly are. > Should I be using IBM's > wsDefaultBindings Ant task to generate the required > IBM specific application descriptor files? No idea. Depends if it's just creating ibm-*-bnd.xmi files or if there's more to it. > 3. I noticed that IBM provides an endptEnabler Ant task. Do I > have to run my Web Service deployable ( EAR file ) through that task > before I > can deploy it to WebSphere? See my first answer :-) > Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I'm finding that there is next > to no documentation or examples of how to develop and deploy Web > Services to WebSphere without using their IDE. Ah yes, WSAD. Or, as it's known around our office, V.Sad :-) I've managed to avoid it so far. Sorry I can't help more. Andrew. * Hey, what do you expect? It's 1am here... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ xdoclet-user mailing list xdoclet-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
