On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ajith Ranabahu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Thanks Ajith,
That clears up some of it for me. I now see that Axis2 Service
Archiver wizard is intended to be more general purpose than I was
guessing. I was thinking that it was intended to just archive
services that were created by Axis2 Code Generated Wizard. Maybe what
I want is so trivial that it does not need a wizard?
Is there another way to do what I want?
Is there a command embedded in the build.xml file that will archive the service?
I think it should be easy because the folder already laid out in the
correct format.
If nothing already exists AND there is some consensus that it would be
useful I would like to volunteer to write a wizard that would archive
a well formatted service folder and copy it to the proper directory in
the tomcat/axis2 directory for deployment.
--
Michael Potter
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