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TOTD #98: Create a Metro JAX-WS Web service using GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse

Posted by arungupta on August 26, 2009 at 8:28 AM EDT

Now that you've installed GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse 1.1, lets use this bundle to create a simple Metro/JAX-WS compliant Web service and deploy on GlassFish. These steps will work with either Eclipse 3.4.2 or 3.5 with WTP Java EE support.

  1. Lets create a simple "Dynamic Web Project" as shown below:


  2. Name the project "HelloMetro" and take all other defaults:



    Click on "Finish" to complete the project creation.
  3. Metro allows to create a Web service from a POJO class. So let's add a POJO to the project by right-clicking on the project and selecting "New", "Class" as shown below:

      

    Specify the package name as "server", class name as "HelloService" and click on "Finish".
  4. Add a simple method to the newly generated class as:

    public String sayHello(String name) {
      return "Hello " + name + "!!";
}
  5. Expand the project, go to "HelloService.java" in "server" package, right-click, select "Web Services", "Create Web service".
  6. Click on "Web service runtime: Apache Axis" and select "Metro (JAX-WS) Runtime" as the Web service runtime as shown below:

  7. Move the slider on the left to top. This will enable testing of the deployed Web service. The completed configuration looks like:



    and click on "Next >".
  8. Select the checkbox "Copy Metro library jars to the project" to resolve the references correctly as shown below:



    and click on "Next >". This bundles the application and deploys to GlassFish and provides an option to test the deployed Web service as shown below:



    Clicking on the "Launch" button shows the following output in the browser:



    The WSDL is hosted at "http://localhost:8083/HelloMetro/HelloServiceService?wsdl".
  9. Click on "sayHello" method, click on "Add" and enter the value as "Duke" as shown below:



    Click on "Go" and the response is shown as:



    Clicking on "Source" in the response window shows the SOAP request/response messages as shown below:

  10. Alternatively, you can click on "Finish" to complete the dialog. Then click on "Run" menu item, "Launch the Web Services Explorer" to see a screen as:



    Enter the URL of the WSDL in "WSDL URL" box as "http://localhost:8083/HelloMetro/HelloServiceService?wsdl" and click on "Go". Now you are seeing the similar screen to test the Web service within the integrated browser as shown below:


A future blog will cover how to write a database-enabled application using the bundled Dali JPA Tools and MySQL pre-registered JDBC driver.

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Change for "GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse v1.2"

by xcirclex - 2010-02-14 07:54

For "GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse v1.2 (December 17, 2009)":
In step 8, we have to change to:
Keep default.
It means:
Unselect the checkbox "Copy Metro library jars to the project"
Select the checkbox "Generate JSR 109 Web Service"
If we don't make above change, sun-jaxws.xml file and a servlet mapping (in web.xml) are created and JEE will have do a duplicated work (follow web.xml and anotation in HelloService) and we will have a bug as:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Servlet [HelloServiceService] and Servlet [HelloService] have the same url pattern: [/HelloServiceService]at org.glassfish.apf.AnnotationInfo@aeaea6