On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:17, Jeff Harmes wrote:
Hi all,
I have a bunch of questions concerning the generation of WebService
for IBM Websphere:
1. Is my assumption correct that WebSphere expects Web Services
to be bundled in an EAR file?
No idea. Although I am using WebSphere at work at the moment, we've not
needed to create any Web Services on it yet. I know you can deploy war
files without having to bundle them into an ear, but I don't know how
web services affect that. But since this isn't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't feel too bad about my
ignorance ;-)
2. If that is true, my next observation is that XDoclet does not
provide any way to generate the required application.xml file. Is this
correct?
Yes. There is no per-class info in the application.xml (unless you
happen to build a separate ejb jar for each bean and a separate war file
for each servlet, I suppose) so there's nowhere useful to put the @tags
and little point in generating it. If we were to add a template it
would probably consist entirely of merge files, and you can do that just
as easily with "cat"...
Alternatively (caution: silly answer ahead*), since application.xml
contains information for each (ejb or web) module, and you'll likely
have an xdoclet task for each module somewhere in your build script, you
could create a target that runs the Ant script itself through some XSLT
and generates the application.xml from those xdoclet task elements. You
could even use <xsl:include> to add merge points.
2a. If this statement is true, then are people just
hand-crafting an application.xml file and making sure it gets included
when packaging
their EAR files?
Most likely.
2b. There are WebSphere specific files that are created
for an EAR file: ibm-application-bnd.xmi and ibm-application-ext.xmi.
Again,
there are no facilities in XDoclet to generate these
files? If not, are people also hand-crafting these files as well?
We certainly are.
Should I be using IBM's
wsDefaultBindings Ant task to generate the required
IBM specific application descriptor files?
No idea. Depends if it's just creating ibm-*-bnd.xmi files or if
there's more to it.
3. I noticed that IBM provides an endptEnabler Ant task. Do I
have to run my Web Service deployable ( EAR file ) through that task
before I
can deploy it to WebSphere?
See my first answer :-)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I'm finding that there is next
to no documentation or examples of how to develop and deploy Web
Services to WebSphere without using their IDE.
Ah yes, WSAD. Or, as it's known around our office, V.Sad :-) I've
managed to avoid it so far.
Sorry I can't help more.
Andrew.
* Hey, what do you expect? It's 1am here...
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