I'm about to create some webservice stuff and used until now Sun J2EE 1.4 RI for the basics. At the end I have to provide a web service, which could be deployed to different containers which support JAX-RPC.
Thanx to the tutorial http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html and some documentation https://jax-rpc.dev.java.net https://jax-rpc.dev.java.net/whitepaper/1.1/index-part1.html I ended up with a .war file with classes, web.xml and a file jaxrpc-ri.xml (the "raw" .war file). I can deploy that in Sun App Server (wow;-), it creates all the necessary stuff (stubs ..) behind the scenes. With Sun's wsdeploy tool I can create a "cooked" (implementation specific) .war file and deploy that too in Sun App Server. I can use Tomcat as container for the webservice when I do create the "cooked" .war file by using Sun's wsdeploy. For that, off course I have to bring all necessary JAX-RPC stuff from Sun to Tomcat (either in the .war itself or by copying it to common/lib or so). This works pretty well. Now I would like to use Axis 1.2 since I found it supports JAX-RPC - with it's own implementation (great!). The approach via simply writing .jws files is nice, like good "old" .jsp stuff! But, could I/how could I let Axis use my raw .war file? The .war contains (HelloWorld sample) HelloService.class (Interface) HelloServiceServlet.class (Impl) jaxrpc-ri.xml Sun specific? JAXRPC specific? model.xml.gz Sun specific? JAXRPC specific? sun-web.xml If I want to deploy in Sun App Srv web.xml The web.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; version="2.4" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";> <env-entry> <env-entry-name>TestEnvironmentEntry</env-entry-name> <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> <env-entry-value>this is the value!</env-entry-value> </env-entry> </web-app> The file model.xml.gz is generated with wscompile from J2EE 1.4. I thought this wscompile + model + jaxrpc-ri.xml would be a fundamental JAX-RPC feature but it seems it's Sun implementation specific ... Could anyone clarify this for me? So, I've got my .war file and don't know what to do with it. :-) I tried to put it in the Axis folder but nothing happens. I tried to put it in the plain webapps folder and the .war gets unpacked but nothing more happens. So, is there an "autodeploy" feature in Axis? I guess I have to write something like a deploy.xml. How should this look like for my .war? Do I need to have a .jws file as a "starting point" for my web service, if I want to deploy it to Axis? I mean, for commercial use where you often want to hide your implementation, I could imagine to write - for deployment to Axis - a .jws file and put the rest of the implementation as .class files in a .jar or so. Is this the correct way for using Axis JAX-RPC implementation? Where's the possibility to influence the creation of the WSDL? I mean, is it possible to influence what get's created: rpc/literal or document/literal? Or, is there a way ("cooked" .war as described in the documentation mentioned above) to create with something like "wsdeploy" a "cooked" .war for Axis? Thank you very much! Merten
