I'm learning how to develop SOAP web services with Java.
So far now I've been following this excellent tutorial
http://web.archive.org/web/20120626005333/http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jax_ws_2/
It all goes well, I have my web service working from the command line with it's embedded server and then, with the help of NetBeans I deployed it on Tomcat.
I'd like to know the steps to manually deploy it on Tomcat, in order to learn how it's done and because I don't like depending on an IDE.
I mean, I'd like to know how everything could be done from the command line and a text editor.
I've also found this link that explains how to manually deploy a servlet to Tomcat,
http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c292.html
but I couldn't find any article telling how to deploy a web service.
Thanks a lot.
Deploying Web ServicesUsing Admin Console, go to Application Server > Applications > Web Applications, then click Deploy. In an enterprise Java Bean (EJB), packaged as an EJB-JAR file. Using Admin Console, go to Application Server > Applications > EJB Modules, then click Deploy.
How to MANUALLY build and deploy a jax-ws web service to tomcat
I was trying to figure out how to MANUALLY build and deploy a web service for learning pourposes.
I began with this excellent article
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jax_ws_2/ (new URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/jax-ws-2-141894.html)
The idea was to do the whole thing using only a notepad and the command line.
The only way I could achieve was by deploying a web service with netbeans, and then having a look at the war generated file at \dist\.war (it's just a zip file, you can open it with 7zip)
I leave this in case anybody is interested and for documentation purposes...
If anybody knows an easier way please let me know!!!
tested on:
C:\tomcat6\bin>version Server version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 Server built: March 9 2010 1805 Server number: 6.0.26.0 OS Name: Windows XP OS Version: 5.1 Architecture: x86 JVM Version: 1.6.0_18-b07 JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
saludos
sas
c:\java\src\ws
c:\java\src\ws\Adder.java
// c:\java\src\ws\Adder.java package ws; import javax.jws.WebService; @WebService public class Adder { public double add( double value1, double value2 ) { return value1 + value2; } }
c:\java\src\ execute
c:\java\src> javac ws\Adder.java
file c:\java\src\ws\Adder.class will be generated
c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws META-INF context.xml WEB-INF classes ws Adder.class lib activation.jar webservices-api.jar webservices-extra.jar webservices-extra-api.jar webservices-rt.jar webservices-tools.jar sun-jaxws.xml web.xml
copy c:\java\src\ws\Adder.class
c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\classes\ws\Adder.class
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/adder_ws"/>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"> <listener> <listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class> </listener> <servlet> <servlet-name>Adder</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Adder</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/add</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <!-- not needed <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> --> </web-app>
WEB-INF\sun-jaxws.xml
file : c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\sun-jaxws.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <endpoints version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"> <endpoint implementation="ws.Adder" name="Adder" url-pattern="/add"/> </endpoints>
files at c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\lib
copy netbeans files from
[netbeans dir]\enterprise\modules\ext\metro\*.*
and
[netbeans dir]\ide\modules\ext\jaxb\activation.jar
Shutdown : c:\tomcat6\bin\shutdown.bat
Startup : c:\tomcat6\bin\startup.bat
Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/adder_ws/add?wsdl
you can also use a tool like soapui (http://www.soapui.org/) to test the web service
that's it, I guess now I'll have a look at the way eclipses does it...
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