Hello all.
I'm trying to incorporate a web service (axis's implementation of SOAP) into an existing web application. The web application is relatively well architected using MVC, so an API of functionality, plus a data structure of beans already exists.
My question is a confirmation: is this all I need to do in order to integrate axis into my web application? 1.) add all the necessary axis jars to the WEB-INF/lib directory 2.) add the necessary servlet mapping to map HTTP requests to axis to my web.xml 3.) create a server-config.wsdd file containing a <service> entry defining my service classes and bean mappings
Is this all that's necessary?
Up to a point. Just remember that you're not dealing with objects any more. If you're model classes rely on inter object relationships significantly (which is a perfectly valid approach) you'll be bitten by the object / message difference. If you understand this then great, but I've seen quite a few people attempt to use Axis and friends as if it were an object based system such as RMI and get burned as a result.
Good luck!
Tom
