Hi CXF Team, At first I would like congratulate you because I'm very impressive with CXF : powerfull and very simple!. Indeed I have tried to use Axis2 with JAX-WS and I have take a very long time to have success with WebServices and there is a lot of bug with JAXWSDeployer -(
With CXF my whole tests are sucessfull. I write you because I'm using CXF without Spring, so I do like this in my WEB Application : -------------------- Object implementor = new MyService(); String address = "myservice"; Endpoint.publish(address, implementor); -------------------- It works great, but I'm lazy developer and I think it should be cool if we have a JAXWSDeployer like Axis2 which is enable to scan classes from JAR and WEB-INF/classes and deploy classes as WebService, if scanned class has the @WebService or @WebServiceProvider. I have not found this feature in the CXF documentation and I tell me if you will be interested with this feature that I could develop and contribute to CXF project. My idea is to declare a Servlet in the web.xml like this : -------------------- <servlet> <description>Apache CXF JAX-WS Deployer</description> <servlet-name>jaxwsdeployer</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JAXWSDeployer</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> -------------------- which is loaded after the CXFNonSpringServlet. This servlet works with a jaxws-deployers.xml which could looks like this : -------------------- <jaxws-deployers> <jaxws-deployer source="/WEB-INF/classes" packages="sample.ws.*"/> <jaxws-deployer source="/WEB-INF/lib/myservices.jar" packages="sample2.ws.*"/> </jaxws-deployers> -------------------- This configuration will scan : 1) classes from packages sample.ws.* of the WEB-INF/classes folder, load class and search if it find @WebService or @WebServiceProvider. In this case, the following code could be executed : -------------------- Object implementor = new MyService(); String address = "myservice"; Endpoint.publish(address, implementor); -------------------- 2) classes from the sample2.ws.* packages of the /WEB-INF/lib/myservices.jar JAR. This descriptor could be improved too to manage variable path like : <jaxws-deployer source="$work/classes" packages="sample.ws.*"/> where $temp is the custom value. ClassLoader provider could be setted in the configuration. <jaxws-deployer source="$work/classes" packages="sample.ws.*" class-loader-provider="MyClassLoaderProvider"/> I don't know if I have good explained my idea, but my question is are you interested with this feature? Perhaps JAXWSDeployer -like already exists but I have not found documentation about that. If you are interested, don't hesitate to tell me. Thank a lot for your answer. Regards Angelo