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SMTP transport extension for JAX-WS RI

Posted by jitu on May 6, 2007 at 8:05 PM PDT




jax-ws-commons: JAX-WS commons - SMTP transport for<br /> JAX-WS<br />

Finally, we (vivek,
kohsuke
and I) put together a SMTP transport for JAX-WS !! JAX-WS works with
various transports and it also provides plugin
extensions to write any custom transport. SMTP transport takes
advantage of these extensions. SMTP transport is implemented as a custom
transport using href="http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/jax-ws-sources/jaxws-ri/rt/src/com/sun/xml/ws/api/server/Adapter.java?r=1.2">Adapter
extension on the server side and href="http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/jax-ws-sources/jaxws-ri/rt/src/com/sun/xml/ws/api/pipe/TransportTubeFactory.java?r=1.2">TransportTubeFactory.java
on the client side.

Basics

For the communication to happen between "Me" and "You", there needs to
be two inboxes: "My Inbox" and "Your Inbox".  "Me" sends
request messages to "You" and expect responses in "My Inbox".
Similarly,  "You" sends response messages to "My Inbox" in
order to reach "Me".

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SMTP advantages

  • It is reachable. No server setup is necessary.
  • Great asynchrony. Server need not be there when
    client sends a request message.

Client-side Programming

You need jaxws-smtp.jar and JavaMail in
your classpath for this to work. Typical client code would like this:

public void testSmtp() {<br>    SMTPTransportTube.dump = true; // Enable logging<br><br>    SMTPFeature feature = new SMTPFeature("smtp.host", "me@sun.com");<br>    feature.setPOP3("pop.host", "uid", "password");<br>    GreetingService proxy =<br>        new GreetingServiceService().getGreetingServicePort(feature);<br><br>    WSBindingProvider bp = (WSBindingProvider)bp;<br>    bp.setAddress("smtp://you@sun.com");<br>    ... = proxy.sayHelloTo("...");<br>    bp.close();<br>}<br>

This
configures SMTPFeature with SMTP(sending) and POP3(receiving)
configuration. This feature is used to create proxy. Once the endpoint
address is set, then proxy can be used to invoke web service.

Server-side Configuration

JAX-WS SMTP extension can be used with href="https://jax-ws-commons.dev.java.net/spring/">JAX-WS
Spring extension for more flexible configuration --- in
particular to expose the same endpoint as both HTTP and SMTP. See href="https://jax-ws-commons.dev.java.net/source/browse/jax-ws-commons/trunk/transport/smtp/test-app/">the
sample application for the complete example of how to put
this all together by using Maven.

&lt;beans<br>  xmlns:ws ="http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/core"<br>  xmlns:wsm="http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/smtp"<br>  xsi:schemaLocation=<br>    "http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/smtp http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/smtp.xsd<br>     http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/core http://jax-ws.dev.java.net/spring/core.xsd"&gt;<br><br>  &lt;wsm:smtp service="#myservice" incoming="#in" outgoing="#out" /&gt;<br>  &lt;wsm:pop3 id="in" host="pop3.Host" uid="uid" password="password" /&gt;<br>  &lt;wsm:sender id="out" host="smtp.host" from="server.from@com"/&gt;<br><br>  &lt;ws:service id="myservice"&gt;<br>    &lt;ws:bean&gt;<br>      &lt;bean class="greeter.GreetingService" /&gt;<br>    &lt;/ws:bean&gt;<br>  &lt;/ws:service&gt;<br><br>&lt;/beans&gt;<br>

Alternatively, you can also configure the srever side
programatically without Spring like href="https://jax-ws-commons.dev.java.net/source/browse/jax-ws-commons/trunk/transport/smtp/jaxws-smtp/src/test/java/pop3/SmtpTest.java?view=markup">this.

Testing

  • We automated the testing using href="https://mock-javamail.dev.java.net/">mock javamail
    project.

We'll be showing a SMTP demo  (along with JSON demo!)
in our JavaOne session href="http://www28.cplan.com/cc158/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=158-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria1=+&icriteria2=+&icriteria7=+&icriteria9=TS-4948&icriteria8=&icriteria3=">TS-4948
"Unleashing the Power of JAX-WS RI: Spring, Stateful Web Services,
SMTP, and More", so mark your calendars accordingly ...











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