After noticing Java 6 includes javax.xml.ws, I'm able to create a standalone web service. How would I go about hosting that in Tomcat 6?
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You will need to download the JAX-WS RI (Reference Implementation) jax-ws.dev.java.net. The https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/nonav/2.1.2m1/docs/samples.html page lists some tips at the bottom of the page on setting up Tomcat for JAX-WS RI.
Specifically for Tomcat 6, you will need to:
Edit $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.properties and set shared.loader={RI Installation Directory}/lib/*.jar. If you are running multiple instances of Tomcat, then edit CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties for that particular instance. The same technique can be used with Tomcat 5.x if you don't like to copy all the jars to $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib
Courtney Palit
2009-11-16 01:35:21
jdk6 comes with , as far as I understand, a jax-ws implementation. I can generate a silly standalone web service(serviced over http) w/o any other dependencies. What is the jax-ws ri needed for when deploying on tomcat ?
nos
2009-11-16 10:35:11
As far as I can tell, it is included with the jdk6 (version 2.1). The same ref implementation is available as a separate download so that you can more easily add those libraries to app servers like Tomcat. The separate download also allows you to move to a later version of jax-ws than in included with jdk6. From what I can tell, the metro download's ant task will work great with Tomcat 5.x but you may need the few extra steps I listed for Tomcat 6 due to the finickiness of Tomcat 6's lib-loading behavior. I need to poke around with it to see where Tomcat 6 likes the jars best.
Courtney Palit
2009-11-16 19:39:43
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Download metro from here and execute this jar as
java -jar metro-2_0-ea.jar
The metro directory contains two ant files, metro-on-glassfish.xml and metro-on-tomcat.xml. These two files are used to install the Metro binaries into the respective web containers.
The installation process for Tomcat:
shutdown.bat (Tomcat shutdown)
Execute below line on command prompt
ant -Dtomcat.home= -f /metro-on-tomcat.xml install
startup.bat (Tomcat start)
the installation process copies the two Metro jar files into Tomcat's shared/lib directory. No Tomcat configuration files are modified.
Thomman
2009-11-16 07:10:41
Thanks; I did as you adviced, but while I can deploy the webservice just fine under JBoss when I try with Tomcat 5.5 I get a "javax.servlet.ServletException: Class ...WebServiceMain is not a Servlet" visiting the WSDL page. Any idea?
Manrico Corazzi
2010-10-13 10:01:04
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Or you can use Apache CXF which is a full-featured JAX-WS implementation. No extra configurations - only one Servlet.
Bozho
2009-11-16 07:23:14
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Watch out for encription support, compatibility with WSDL 1.1 and SAAJ, trying to be the first to use a new API usually leads to problems.
I would recomend Axis2 instead.
Just my two cents.
Raul Lapeira Herrero
2010-10-13 08:45:52