Hi,
See whether the following answers help
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Michael Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Axis2 Crew,
>
> I am trying to use Eclipse to create web services.
>
> I have created a webservice using the Axis2 Code Generated Wizard and
> feel comfortable with everything it does.
>
> I am now trying to use the Axis2 Service Archiver wizard to bundle
> that service and deploy it to tomcat.
>
>
> The wizard asks for the folder where my new service resides (that is
> easy to answer).
> It then asks for the .wsdl file and the services.xml file.
Its actually asking for the location of the .class files of the
service implementation
> I would have thought that the wizard would have just used the .wsdl
> and services.xml file that are in the folder from the first question.
Well it was never meant to do that. What we had in mind when building
this tool is that users would either have their generated files or
would have hand crafted artifacts that they want to archive into an
aar.
> Is there some reason the wizard needs the additional degree of freedom
> to use a different .wsdl and services.xml file?
>
> The wizard also asks for the external libraries. It seems that I have
> to specify the the axis2 libraries or tomcat can not load the service.
Nope. These are not the Axis2 libs. These are any external jars needed
for your service. Say you are using a specialized math library in your
service implementations. Then you have to point to that jar here.
Ultimately these jars would end up in the lib folder of the generated
aar.
> Because this wizard is specific for axis2 I would have expected it to
> automatically include the axis2 libraries.
Axis2 libs are not needed inside the aar files
> Is there a reason for the wizard to not include the axis2 libraries
> when building a service?
>
> It _seems_ to me that this wizard is not doing as much as it should.
> I am a newbie to eclipse so I am asking in hopes that someone can
> enlighten me as to why this wizard makes sense.
One thing you can easily do with this wizard is to generate an aar for
an arbitrary class. Here are the steps
1. Point to the class file location (say {eclipseproject}/bin) for the location
2. skip the WSDL
3. add the libs your class would need
4. Say generate the services.xml
5 Type in the class name and click load. You will see all the public
methods in a table - select the ones you want to expose
6. create the archive
Once you deploy this Axis2 will generate a default WSDL for it.
HTH
Ajith
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