Is it possible, and when yes, how?
Actually, the JAX-WS implementation bundled in WebLogic 10.3 is based on JAX-WS RI 2.1.4 as documented in the What's New in WebLogic Server:
The WebLogic Server implementation of JAX-WS is based on the JAX-WS Reference Implementation (RI), Version 2.1.4, and includes enhancements to the tool layer to simplify the building and deployment of JAX-WS services and to ease the migration from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS. The following features and enhancements are available from the JAX-WS RI 2.1.4.
But this is just a side note :) Now, to answer your question, yes, it is possible. Basically, the idea is to package everything as an EAR and to provide a weblogic-application.xml
to specify the Java packages that need to loaded from the EAR instead of from WebLogic's default classloader. To do so, follow these steps:
In the META-INF/weblogic-application.xml
of your EAR, put
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-application>
<application-param>
<param-name>webapp.encoding.default</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</application-param>
<prefer-application-packages>
<package-name>com.sun.xml.*</package-name>
<package-name>javax.xml.bind.*</package-name>
<package-name>javax.jws.*</package-name>
<package-name>javax.xml.soap.*</package-name>
</prefer-application-packages>
</weblogic-application>
Put the required JARs in the WEB-INF/lib
of your WAR.
If WebLogic is reporting classloading issues, you may have to add more Java packages under the prefer-application-packages
element.
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