Under what circumstances does a CXF server read the WSDL file?

[Trenaman, Adrian]

Hi there,
 
I was playing around with some JAXWS services in CXF, and am wondering
under what circumstances does a service actually go and read the WSDL
file. In the SOAP/HTTP case it doesn't have to read from the WSDL file -
all the information should be implicit from the annotations in the WSDL
code so there's no need to read from the WSDL at all. 
 
However, if the JMS transport is being used then the WSDL file has to be
read, because the service endpoint information is only found in the
WSDL. I note that in the jms_queue demo the service explicitly uses the
wsdlLocation attribute to point to the WSDL file.
 
So, is the rule go to the WSDL only when you need to?, or, is the rule
go to the WSDL only if the wsdlLocation has been specified in an
annotation?
 
Thanks,
 
Ade.
 
 
 

 

 

 


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Re: Under what circumstances does a CXF server read the WSDL file?

[Daniel Kulp]

The latter.   If there is a wsdlLocation attribute, we always grab the 
wsdl.  Additionaly, if the config (like spring config) specifies a wsdl 
location, we use it. 

 

Dan


On Thursday 24 January 2008, Trenaman, Adrian wrote:
 Hi there,

 I was playing around with some JAXWS services in CXF, and am wondering
 under what circumstances does a service actually go and read the WSDL
 file. In the SOAP/HTTP case it doesn't have to read from the WSDL file
 - all the information should be implicit from the annotations in the
 WSDL code so there's no need to read from the WSDL at all.

 However, if the JMS transport is being used then the WSDL file has to
 be read, because the service endpoint information is only found in the
 WSDL. I note that in the jms_queue demo the service explicitly uses
 the wsdlLocation attribute to point to the WSDL file.

 So, is the rule go to the WSDL only when you need to?, or, is the
 rule go to the WSDL only if the wsdlLocation has been specified in an
 annotation?

 Thanks,

 Ade.










 
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