Hi nb users, tomcat users, jax-ws users, Bobby, and Milan,
Not a question, really some comments.
- I have been trying to create and deploy webservices on a stand alone
Tomcat 5.5.x server for some time now with NO success till now
- Recently I have completed the tutorial Building JAX-WS 2.0 Services
with NetBeans 5.0 ( http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/jaxws20.html )
- the tutorial worked like a champ!, no issues or problems! I have tried
other tutorials involving building web services using Netbeans 4.1/5
beta, Eclipse, JAX-RPC, Axis, and Tomcat and I could never get any of
them to work correctly, this was definitely a pleasant change.
- once I completed the above tutorial, I then installed the .war web
service file in my own Tomcat 5.5.12 and run it and it too worked like a
champ the first time!
Mind you I had to put all the JAX-WS jars from the lid dir in the Tomcat
common/endorsed dir
- It is very cool that the JAX-WS stuff will work on Tomcat and not just
Sun server
- JAX-WS is slick and easy as all getout to create/deploy webservices!,
blows away AXIS hands down
- I also recently tried the Eclipse WTP project WebServices tutorials (
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ ) and although the WTP GUI wizard was
fairly slick it hanged when I tried to deploy it on Tomcat 5.5.12 for
some unknown reason, another failed tutorial.
Bottom line...
- thanks to everyone involved with JAX-WS 2.0, Netbeans, Tomcat,
and Bobby and Milan (they wrote the tutorial)!
- Netbeans, Tomcat, and now JAX-WS, will continue to be my
development tools/platforms of choice!
- thought I would share the above info with everyone to let
others check it out for themselves
