I will eventually be packing axis in my webapp as well for transportability across servlet containers, so thanks for the pointers!
This does bring up an issue that perhaps has been addressed on this board before: I'm assuming that most J2EE vendor implementation of Web services is done using the Servlet container as a "host", I'm wondering if there are talks or actions to integrate Java Web Services into the Web-app specs so that:
1) a Web service can be deployed in web.xml just like a Servlet
2) architectures like Axis that use chain of Handlers can reimplement this as Servlet Filters
3) Web service impl classes can be hot-redeployed like Servlets
Perhaps an intermediate step (since getting JCP specs to change takes time) would be for Tomcat to adopt Axis and ship it under one OOB package. This would still require vendor-specific deployment process, but at least its better than what it is right now, which is also vendor-specific but difficult to integrate OOB.
Gene
Mir Shafiqul Islam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All you would need to is have axis.jar and other axis related jar files
in your WEB-INF/lib directory before "war"ing your web application. In
the web.xml file you need to define what the service location will be
and add proper entry for the servlet. You can take al the entries in
web.xml file which was shipped with the axis distribution and add those
in your own web.xml file.
Also if you want axis to automatically deploy your service when the war
is deployed, then you need to do the following:
1) Create your own Initialization servlet which will use the
AdminServlet to do the deployment
2) Supply the deploy.wsdd file in the war file or put it in a location
that your servlet can read from.
3) put entries in the web.xml file so that your init servlet gets
initialized at the deploy time.
Here is a sample entry for init servlet in web.xmlinitServlet Initialize Servlet com.earthlink.pfe.servlets.InitializationServlet 1
not sure if it clears up for you, you may need to readup a bit on the
user guide as well and experiement before things will start to work.
Mir
James Carman wrote:
>I would like to package the AxisServlet in my webapp along with other pieces
>of my distributed application (Java WebStart servlet, etc.). How do I "war
>up" my files so that when I place my WAR file in the webapps directory of a
>server, it will already have my service deployed? I've tried supplying my
>own /WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd file containing only my service, but that
>didn't seem to work. When I tried to view the WSDL file, it returned a 404
>error. I don't want to have to run the AdminClient. I want this thing to
>work "out of the box." Any thoughts/ideas?
>
>James Carman, President
>Carman Consulting, Inc.
>1218 Bob White Ct.
>Edgewood, KY 41018
>(513) 325-7977
>
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