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
