Thank you Deepal,
I am still not sure about the following issues:
1. Let's say I already generated the axis2.war file once (with my service).
Afterwards I changed my business logic. As far as I understand from your
answer, I can now somehow deploy my service.aar to tomcat, without rebuilding
the axis2.war (ant create.war after my service.aar is in repository/services
dir). Can you explain in a bit more details how can I do that? Do you mean
adding it to the axis2.war file? Is there a way with axis2 to deploy my service
as a regular war file?
2. I would appreciate it if you can send me a pointer to a WS with schema
validation (handler) that uses jaxb (or similar tech) to validate client
requests. I didn't find any example in the axis2 documentation for this kind of
validation. It seems to me that this should be a common issue with WS (server
provider side).
3. I encountered a problem with the class loading (or at least I think so). I
am using jdk1.5 and tomcat5.5. I generate the server side only. As far as I
understand the axis2.war should contain under the services dir the available
services (aar files). Now, when building the aar, I am adding external jars
that I am using into the aar /lib dir. It looks as follows:
myservice.aar:
lib/
XBeans-packaged.jar
my-external.jar
axis2.war:
WEB-INF/services/myservice.aar
Should the external jar(s) also reside in WEB-INF/lib/ ?
At the moment, I am getting 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError' exceptions,
although I believe I have all the necessary jars under the lib/ of the aar
file. I also copied the jars to the lib/ folder of the axis2 deployed war (in
tomcat) but to no avail. When debugging it remote with IntelliJ it tells me:
'Class not loaded:com.xxx'.
Any thought?
Thanks!
Oded
-----Original Message-----
From: Deepal Jayasinghe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 17:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Axis2: Deploying a service to a Tomcat server
Oded Onn wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I am quite new to the world of WS and Axis 2 and am sorry if my
> questions seems a bit silly. However, I looked for answers in your
> forums and documentation and didn’t find them.
>
>
>
> I wrote my first WS using Axis2. Started from a WSDL file and
> generated the server code. Now, as far as I understand from your
> manual, I am suppose to do the following:
>
> 1. Write the business logic (in the MyServiceSkeleton.java file)
>
> 2. Build the WS
>
> 3. Copy the generated AAR file into the services directory of my
> axis2 server
>
> 4. Create the axis2.WAR file using “ant create.war”
>
You do not need to generate the war, download it and deploy to tomcat.
Then you can deploy your service there.
>
> 5. Copy thr genearetd axis2.WAR from the dist directory into my
> tomcat server webapp directory.
>
>
>
> I followed the above steps and it works (I tested my service with
> SOAPUI as the client).
>
> I have some questions:
>
> 1. Is there an easier way to do the above steps in a production
> environment? Can I somehow generate the war file to be used in tomcat
> in a simpler way? At the moment, every time I change the business
> logic I have to redo all these steps…
>
You do not need, just replace the aar file.
>
> 2. Can I deploy the service without the “axis2/services/” prefix
> in the URL? The service is to be deployed to a client, and thus I
> prefer it to have a “clean” URL. At the moment it is
> “http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/MyService”. Can I deploy it to
> be “http://localhost:8080/MyService”?
>
Yes you can, for that you need to edit axis2.xml in
webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/conf
there is a parameter called context path.
>
> 3. I noticed that there is no complete validation of the SOAP
> request (i.e. no check that the XML passed is correct according to the
> schema described in the WSDL). Where should I add this kind of
> validation? Is there any automatic methods that I need to call? I
> assume the answer is somewhere in the
> “MyServiceMessageReceiverInOut.java file” – I am just really not sure
> how to approach this file. I read some about handlers – is this the
> right way to perform validation?
>
Axis2 does not do that because it adds additional cost. But you can
write your own handler and do the validation.
Thanks,
Deepal
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for your help – it is much appreciated!
>
> Best,
>
> Oded
>
>
>
> [email protected]
>
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