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"Re: Metro in JBoss 7 HowTo"

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Hi Mike,
I'll comment later on the classpath / client topic.
> Mike P wrote:
> 
> Lastly, it's interesting that, possibly, as is, right now, Metro can not do 
> WS-Trust with a CXF server. Unless that tagged on /mex url becomes 
> automagically available.
> My thinking on that one, is that *if* the wsdl advertises the (extra?) 
> metadata, that CXF then goes ahead and makes avaibable this mystery /mex 
> service (that apparently does GETs and POSTs and whatnots), and that Metro 
> "ought to" not make assumptions about mex being available when the wsdl 
> doesn't list it (which might be considered a bug in Metro - which should be 
> reported - or at least feedback ought to be requested on this issue - I can 
> post a report about my findings, since I've already spend time banging my 
> head into this...).
> *Maybe* there could a flag somewhere that makes CXF make available mex even 
> though wsdl doesn't advertise it - just so that clients like Metro that 
> require this (wrongfully), don't end up failing.
> *Or*, have CXF add mex always. I don't know when mex should be added - 
> perhaps only  with this WS-Trust stuff? Or perhaps for other ws security 
> features. Not needed for simple unsecure ws calls I would think (will have to 
> verify that).
I did a bit of additional investigation on this topic today. Basically, Apache 
CXF is able to reply to WS-MEX requests sent to "/mex". The problem is with 
properly configuring the STS endpoint on JBoss AS.
You need to have the JBoss Web layer deal with HTTP messages to the /mex 
subpath, for instance by having a web.xml descriptor as follows (please note 
the wildcard in the url pattern):

<web-app ...>
   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>TestSecurityTokenService</servlet-name>
      
<servlet-class>org.jboss.test.ws.jaxws.samples.wsse.policy.trust.SampleSTS</servlet-class>
   </servlet>
   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>TestSecurityTokenService</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/SecurityTokenService/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Besides that, I unfortunately found a bug in the jbossws-cxf 
SubjectCreatingInterceptor which basically block any WS-MEX call, see  
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-3543 
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-3543 . It's fixed on jbossws-cxf trunk and 
will be in next release.

This said, there're many complaints on the net regarding Metro default 
behaviour wrt WS-MetadataExchange and STS endpoints; btw Glen Mazza also 
created a WSIT / Metro improvement ticket at  
http://java.net/jira/browse/WSIT-1586 http://java.net/jira/browse/WSIT-1586 
long time ago (for a better configurability of Metro), but that's not been 
worked yet.
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