Wow! Thanks David! At last a clear explanation that allowed me to get it working!
I deployed the war file that was included in the zip, and its all fine. The only thing I needed to do was to setup the mod_proxy in Apache. So instead of using http://localhost:8080/Calculator I can use http://localhost/Calculator. If I go to this webpage I get: Hi, this is 'CalculatorWebService' web service. However, if I go to http://localhost/Calculator?wsdl I get an XML file output - is that expected? Im my catalina.out log I get this: INFO: Deploying web application archive ejb-webservice.war context path = /ejb-webservice 22-Jan-2009 08:02:21 org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean buildServiceFromClass INFO: Creating Service {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}CalculatorWebService from class org.superbiz.ws.Calculator 22-Jan-2009 08:02:22 org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean buildServiceFromClass INFO: {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg0 {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}arg1 {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return part element name {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return references element {http://superbiz.org/wsdl}return 22-Jan-2009 08:02:22 org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerImpl initDestination INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://nopath:80 context path = context path = /docs context path = /examples context path = /host-manager context path = /manager I just wondered what this line meant: INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://nopath:80 Will this affect things such as mod_proxy (it doesn't seem to have caused problems so far). My ejb log looks like this: 2009-01-22 08:02:19,395 - INFO - Found ejb module EjbModule in war /ejb-webservice 2009-01-22 08:02:19,396 - INFO - Configuring enterprise application: /home/tomcat/webapps/ejb-webservice 2009-01-22 08:02:19,522 - INFO - Enterprise application "/home/tomcat/webapps/ejb-webservice" loaded. 2009-01-22 08:02:19,523 - INFO - Assembling app: /home/tomcat/webapps/ejb-webservice 2009-01-22 08:02:20,151 - INFO - Created Ejb(deployment-id=Calculator, ejb-name=Calculator, container=My Stateless Container) 2009-01-22 08:02:20,151 - INFO - Deployed Application(path=/home/tomcat/webapps/ejb-webservice) 2009-01-22 08:02:22,831 - INFO - Webservice(wsdl=http://localhost:8080/Calculator, qname={http://superbiz.org/wsdl}CalculatorWebService) --> Ejb(id=Calculator) It all looks good to me? I do have some other questions about the process if thats ok: 1) In my EJB log on Tomcat startup I get this WARN: WARN - WARN ... MEJB: @Init is ignored for beans of type Stateless. Method: create Is that something that needs looking into? How can I correct this? 2) I read a little about maven on the maven website: a) Are the pom.properties and pom.xml files automatically created by the 'maven' process? b) What does the maven process do? b) If I am creating my own webapps can I simply copy your META-INF folder and tweak the files so that they contain references to my webapp? Or would I have to 'maven' my new webapps files? Which files does maven take, and what are the outputs? 3) Is the Calculator.class file you posted above a .java file? If so, is it compiled using "javac Calculator.java"? Is the Calculator.class the actual EJB? 4) What is the class file actually doing? I noticed some references to SOAP in the XML output: - <wsdl:binding name="CalculatorWebServiceSoapBinding" type="tns:Calculator"> <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"; /> 5) Is this method a replacement for SOAP? If so, how can I call this EJB from PHP?? 6) Is the web.xml file universal to all EJB webapps, or does it need tweaking for different ones? If the web.xml file is left totally blank I have seen errors about "being unable to marshall the file". So I guess it has to contain some references? 7) What do these lines of code in the java mean: package org.superbiz.ws; - this is the folder structure to the class file /org/superbiz/ws/Calculator.class? import javax.ejb.Stateless; ??? import javax.jws.WebService; ??? 8) If I was to create an EJB which simply connected to a MySQL database via JNDI, and returned the output that the connection was successfully made, how can I do this!?!?! I'm guessing that I would create my java file with the correct imports and the code for the DB connection (using the JNDI thats already setup in server.xml with context reference to correct folder), compile the code using the javac command, do the maven process to create the META-INF folder, set up the file structure, and compile to a war file and deploy to Tomcat? Please let me know if I am kind of on the right track, or correct me if I totally wrong! I'm not a Java coder, and I need this DB connection ASAP...so I'd have to find a reference online for some Java to allow me to create a connection.....do you know of any? I've tried a few but I get compile errors when trying to compile the Java files to class file (if they are Java files that I have been using!!). I've successfully connected to MySQL via JNDI, but not through an EJB process. The only reason I am looking into EJB is because the creators of the sourceforge PHP-Java bridge said that a connection to the MySQL database can be created in an EJB, and then called by PHP. After the connection is made I can then use PHP and MySQL to query the database. Does that sound correct? I tried calling a JDBC and JNDI connection to MySQL straight to Java from PHP. The connection worked, but when I the mysql_select_db() I got nothing. No errors, no log errors, just blank. I think I need to explain further now that I have said the above! My main objective is to connect to an IDMS database. Now the only way this can be done (in our environment) is via the IDMS JDBC type 4 drivers which support JNDI.....this requires a Java environment. BUT, we want to code our website using PHP. So the PHP-Java bridge will allow us to use PHP and Java together, and so I have been told that PHP can call the EJB and connect to the database. This is why I looking at the guide mentioned in my 1st post, and this is why I am testing the PHP-Java bridge with MySQL - all I would have to do to connect to IDMS is change the JNDI settings i.e. URL, username, pass etc etc. Phew! Sorry about the pile of questions. There's just so much I need to find out and I can't seem to find answers anywhere. If you could help me obtain a PHP-(Java-EJB)-JNDI/JDBC-MySQL connection I think I'd buy you a present! lol. Seriously, I would be extremely grateful if you can answer any of the questions to help me along the way. regards Jp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-and-openEJB---how-to-do-this-simple-config--tp21582249p21600552.html Sent from the OpenEJB User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
