Thanks. I'll keep that in mind if we go to production code with this. Although none of the links below seem to explain how to set up using https without setting the url in the WSDL file. Being somewhat green in how Tomcat works, "You can make any Web service available on https based only on configuration", doesn't explain anything to me at this point.
Looks like I need to read up on how to configure web apps in Tomcat. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Binz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Axis client with https Bill, Matthias > Yes, that is what I did. You need to create a new WSDL file that has the > https endpoint url. I created my WSDL with Java2WSDL, so I only changed > the > -l parameter to the new url. Be sure that you use the same server name as > will be used when you create the SSL certificate which now will be > required > on your client PC. I used "https://bwerth2:8443"; (with axis, etc. added of > course). You are not *required* to modify the WSDL in order to use https. While this certainly works, production grade applications normally read their target URLs from the configuration and are not using the URL specified in WSDL. And it would be a bad thing if one had to change the formal interface description as soon as one of the elements of the target URL changes. You can make any Web service available on https based only on configuration: The required steps to support https for a given WS are: (1) Configure your web server to support https. (2) Generate a certificate and use that on server side. (3) Configure the same certificate to be used on client side. (4) On jdk1.3 make sure that jsse is installed. The following links should help: http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_08/online/webservices_jclune_08_25_03/ http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_09/online/jclune_09_10_03/ http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_09/online/jclune_09_17_03/default.aspx http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=24604 Best wishes, Michael.
