You are right that its a bit fiddly. But with ANT you can automate the whole process.
My process... 1. Take original API classes and build. 2. Run Java2WSDL to generate WSDL. 3. Run WSDL2Java to generate new API .java files and bindings. 4. Chuck away original API classes and copy new .java files into main source tree. 5. Compile all the classes. 6. Take the generated deploy.wsdd and copy into server-config.wsdd so that when tomcat deploys war file the service is included. 7. Change the service 'className' to my real implementation that is part of my original code.
Most important part - Get ANT to do the whole thing! If eclipse can't cope then chuck it and use jEdit. :-) Keep implementation completely separate from API.
Mayne, Peter wrote:
I'm just starting out with Axis, so I haven't learned the tricks of the trade yet.
I have a class p.C, which contains at least one method that returns an object of class p.R and throws an exception p.E.
I use axis-java2wsdl (from Ant within Eclipse) to generate a .WSDL file from p.C, and then axis-wsdl2java to generate the .java files in the package p.axis.
However, my p/R.java and p/E.java files are overwritten by wsdl2java, which isn't nice.
If I now add my functionality to the generated p/R.java and p/E.java, and then later on modify my p.C class and regenerate the WSDL and Axis .java files, my p/R.java and p/E.java files will get overwritten again by the plain wsdl2java generated classes.
On the other hand, if I add another method to p.C that returns an object of class p.R2, I need to implement p.R2 to write my method, but I want wsdl2java to generate p/R2.java so I can manually merge my p.R2 with the Axis-generated p.R2, without overwriting my existing p/R.java and p/E.java.
I can do what the axis-wsdl2java doc suggests, and generate the .java files somewhere else and use a <copy> task to copy the ones I want, but I still have to manually change
Whatever happens, it seems there's no way around a fair amount of manual work every time something changes.
Am I missing something here? What's the best way to do code management, particularly in an Eclipse environment?
Thanks.
PJDM
