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Chapter 2. Using Metro

Table of Contents

2.1. Metro Tools
2.1.1. Useful tools for your toolbox
2.2. Using Mavenized Metro Binaries
2.2.1. Using Metro in a Maven project
2.2.2. Using Metro in a non-Maven project
2.3. Developing with NetBeans
2.3.1. Registering GlassFish with the IDE
2.3.2. Creating a Web Service
2.3.3. Configuring Metro's WSIT Features in the Web Service
2.3.4. Deploying and Testing a Web Service
2.3.5. Creating a Client to Consume a WSIT-Enabled Web Service
2.4. Developing with Eclipse
2.4.1. Setup
2.4.2. Create a Metro Web Services Endpoint
2.4.3. Creating Web Service Client using Wsimport CLI
2.4.4. Creating Web Service Client using Wsimport Ant Task
2.4.5. Creating Web Service Client using SOAP UI Plugin
2.5. Logging
2.5.1. Dynamic tube-based message logging
2.5.2. Dumping SOAP messages on client
2.5.3. Dumping SOAP messages on server
2.6. Using Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services / Metro with Java SE
2.6.1. Using Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services with Java SE
2.6.2. Using Metro with Java SE
2.7. Deploying Metro endpoint
2.7.1. The WAR Contents
2.7.2. Using sun-jaxws.xml
2.8. Handlers and MessageContext
2.8.1. Efficient Handlers in Metro
2.9. Deploying Metro with ...
2.9.1. WebLogic 12
2.10. Developing client application with locally packaged WSDL
2.10.1. Service API to pass the WSDL information
2.10.2. Xml Catalog
2.10.3. Using -wsdlLocation switch
2.11. How to invoke and endpoint by overriding endpoint address in the WSDL
2.11.1. BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY
2.11.2. Create Service using updated WSDL
2.12. Maintaining State in Web Services
2.13. FastInfoset
2.13.1. Using FastInfoset
2.14. High Availability Support in Metro

2.1. Metro Tools

Metro provides these tools to help develop Web services applications:

Note that these tools are located in the webservices-tools.jar file in the lib/ subdirectory of Metro (standalone) download. In GlassFish these tools are located in the webservices-osgi.jar under glassfish/modules subdirectory. Shell script versions that of the tools are located under glassfish/bin.

2.1.1. Useful tools for your toolbox

Over the years, the Metro team has found the following tools to be useful for our users when working with web services.

  1. soapUI is a great tool for manually sending SOAP messages to test your web services quickly, or even to automate those testing.

  2. wsmonitor and tcpmon are great tools to monitor the communication between the client and the server.

2.2. Using Mavenized Metro Binaries

Initially, all Metro releases were built using Ant-based infrastructure. As usual, this approach had some advantages as well as some disadvantages. Perhaps the main disadvantage was that it was difficult to manage the set of all the Metro dependencies. As a result, we were not able to provide first class support for our Maven-based users.

This has changed with Metro 2.1 release. Metro 2.1 has brought a significant change to the Metro build process as one of the major tasks in the release was to switch Metro build system from Ant to Maven. The main Metro build as well as the whole WSIT project modules have been fully mavenized and currently Metro is built, assembled and installed using Maven. Metro releases are deployed to Maven central. The Metro modules share a new common root groupId with a value of org.glassfish.metro and can be browsed at the following location: https://search.maven.org/search?q=org.glassfish.metro. All Metro binaries, sources as well as javadoc and samples are all available in the maven repository.

2.2.1. Using Metro in a Maven project

If you want to use Metro in a Maven project, you need to declare a dependency on the Metro runtime bundle:

Example 2.1. Declaring Metro non-OSGi dependencies

<project>
    ...
    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.metro</groupId>
            <artifactId>webservices-rt</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.4</version>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>
    ...
</project>

Specifying this dependency, Maven resolves all the transitive dependencies and gets all the jars that webservices-rt module depends on. Should you want to use OSGi-fied Metro bundle, you need to declare the following dependency instead:

Example 2.2. Declaring Metro OSGi dependencies

<project>
    ...
    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.metro</groupId>
            <artifactId>webservices-osgi</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.4</version>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>
    ...
</project>

2.2.1.1. Using Metro Tools from Maven

Metro has Maven plugins for WSImport and WSGen tools and this snippet from pom.xml shows the usage of these maven plugins. More information on using these plugins is available at JAX-WS Maven Plugin Project site.

2.2.2. Using Metro in a non-Maven project

Even though Metro is currently Maven-based and fully available from a Maven repository, you can, of course, still use it in a non-Maven project or install it manually to your container. First, you need to go to the Metro Standalone Bundle root in the Maven repository and download and unzip a version of your choice. For further instructions, please consult the readme.html file available under the unzipped metro root directory.

2.3. Developing with NetBeans

2.3.1. Registering GlassFish with the IDE

Before you create the web service, make sure GlassFish has been registered with the NetBeans IDE. The registered server list can be viewed from the ToolsServers menu item.

If necessary, to register GlassFish with the IDE:

  1. Start the IDE. Choose ToolsServers from the main menu.

    The Servers window appears.

  2. Click Add Server.

  3. Select GlassFish , and click Next.

    The platform folder location window displays.

  4. Specify the platform location of the server instance and the domain to which you want to register, then click Next.

    The Servers window displays.

  5. If requested, type the admin username and password that you supplied when you installed the web container (the defaults are admin and adminadmin), then click Finish.

2.3.2. Creating a Web Service

The starting point for developing a web service with Metro is a Java class file annotated with the javax.jws.WebService annotation. The WebService annotation defines the class as a web service endpoint. The following Java code shows a web service. The IDE will create most of this Java code for you.

Example 2.3. 

package org.me.calculator;

import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;

@WebService()
public class Calculator {
    @WebMethod(action="sample_operation")
    public String operation(@WebParam(name="param_name")
            String param) {
        // implement the web service operation here
        return param;
    }

    @WebMethod(action="add")
    public int add(@WebParam(name = "i") int i,
           @WebParam(name = "j") int j) {
        int k = i + j;
        return k;
    }
}

Notice that this web service performs a very simple operation. It takes two integers, adds them, and returns the result.

To Create the Web Service

Perform the following steps to use the IDE to create this web service.

  1. Click the Services tab in the left pane, expand the Servers node, and verify that GlassFish is listed in the left pane. If it is not listed, register it by following the steps in Registering GlassFish with the IDE.

  2. Choose FileNew Project, select Java Web from Category, select Web Application from Projects, and click Next.

  3. Assign the project a name that is representative of services that will be provided by the web service (for example, CalculatorApplication), set the Project Location to the location where you'd like to create the project, and click Next. Verify that GlassFish is the Server and that Java EE Version is Java EE 5 or above. Click Finish.

    Note

    When you create the web service project, be sure to define a Project Location that does not include spaces in the directory name. Spaces in the directory might cause the web service and web service clients to fail to build and deploy properly. To avoid this problem, Sun recommends that you create a directory, for example C:\work, and put your project there.

  4. Right-click the CalculatorApplication node and choose NewWeb Service.

  5. Type the web service name (CalculatorWS) and the package name (org.me.calculator) in the Web Service Name and the Package fields respectively.

  6. Select Create Web Service from Scratch and click Finish.

    The IDE then creates a skeleton CalculatorWS.java file for the web service. This file displays in Source mode in the right pane.

  7. In the Operations box of the Design view of CalculatorWS.java, click Add Operation.

  8. In the upper part of the Add Operation dialog box, type add in Name.

  9. Type int into the Return Type field.

    In the Return Type field, you can either enter a primitive data type or select Browse to select a complex data type.

  10. In the lower part of the Add Operation dialog box, click Add and create a parameter named i of type int. Click Add again and create a parameter named j of type int.

  11. Click OK at the bottom of the Add Operation dialog box.

  12. Notice that the add method has been added in the Operations design box.

  13. Click the Source tab for CalculatorWS.java in the right pane. Notice that the add method has been added to the source code.

    Example 2.4. 

    @WebMethod(operationName="add")
    public int add(@WebParam(name = "i") int i, @WebParam(name = "j") int j) {
        // TODO write your implementation code here
        return 0;
    }

  14. Change the add method to the following :

    Example 2.5. 

    @WebMethod(operationName="add")
    public int add(@WebParam(name = "i") int i, @WebParam(name = "j") int j) {
        int k = i + j;
        return k;
    }

  15. Save the CalculatorWS.java file.

2.3.3. Configuring Metro's WSIT Features in the Web Service

Now that you have coded a web service, you can configure the web service to use Metro's WSIT technologies.

You have a possibility to choose which .NET / METRO version you want your service to be compatible with. There are two choices:

  1. .NET 3.5 / METRO 1.3

  2. .NET 3.0 / METRO 1.0

Choose the version appropriate for your web service development (Note the Metro 2.0 library provided by the latest NetBeans and GlassFish products support either version.) .NET 3.5 / METRO 1.3 is selected by default. There are several differences in between the two versions. For .NET 3.0 / METRO 1.0 documentation please follow this link: Metro 1.0 documentation.

This section describes just how to configure the Reliable Messaging. For a discussion of reliable messaging, see Using Reliable Messaging. To see how to secure the web service, see Using WSIT Security.

To Configure Metro's WSIT Features in the Web Service

To configure a web service to use Reliable Messaging, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Projects window, expand the Web Services node under the CalculatorApplication node, right-click the CalculatorWSService node, and choose Edit Web Service Attributes, as shown in Editing Web Service Attributes.

    Figure 2.1. Editing Web Service Attributes

    Editing Web Service Attributes

  2. Select the Reliable Message Delivery check box, as shown in Reliable Messaging Configuration Window, and click OK.

    Figure 2.2. Reliable Messaging Configuration Window

    Reliable Messaging Configuration Window

    This setting ensures that the service sends an acknowledgement to the clients for each message that is delivered, thus enabling clients to recognize message delivery failures and to retransmit the message. This capability makes the web service a "reliable" web service.

  3. In the left pane, expand the Web Pages node and the WEB-INF node, and double-click the wsit-endpoint-classname.xml (wsit-org.me.calculator.CalculatorWS.xml) file to view this file. Click the Source tab.

    The following tags enable reliable messaging:

    <wsp:Policy wsu:Id="CalculatorWSPortBindingPolicy">
        <wsp:ExactlyOne>
            <wsp:All>
                <wsam:Addressing wsp:Optional="false"/>
                <wsrm:RMAssertion/>
            </wsp:All>
        </wsp:ExactlyOne>
    </wsp:Policy>

2.3.4. Deploying and Testing a Web Service

Now that you have configured the web service to use Metro's WSIT technologies, you can deploy and test it.

To Deploy and Test a Web Service

  1. Right-click CalculatorApplication in the Project node, and select Properties, then select Run.

  2. Type /CalculatorWSService?wsdl in the Relative URL field and click OK.

  3. Right-click the Project node and choose Run. The first time GlassFish is started, you will be prompted for the admin password.

    The IDE starts the web container, builds the application, and displays the WSDL file page in your browser. You have now successfully deployed a Metro-based web service.

2.3.5. Creating a Client to Consume a WSIT-Enabled Web Service

Now that you have built and tested a web service that uses Metro's WSIT technologies, you can create a client that accesses and consumes that web service. The client will use the web service's WSDL to create the functionality necessary to satisfy the interoperability requirements of the web service.

To Create a Client to Consume a WSIT-Enabled Web Service

To create a client to access and consume the web service, perform the following steps.

  1. Choose FileNew Project, select Web Application from the Java Web category and click Next.

  2. Name the project, for example, CalculatorWSServletClient, and click Next.

  3. Verify that GlassFish is the Server and that Java EE Version is Java EE 5 or above. Click Finish.

  4. Right-click the CalculatorWSServletClient node and select NewWeb Service Client.

    The NewWeb Service Client window displays.

    Note

    NetBeans submenus are dynamic, so the Web Service Client option may not appear. If you do not see the Web Service Client option, select NewFile\FolderWebservicesWeb Service Client.

  5. Select the WSDL URL option.

  6. Cut and paste the URL of the web service that you want the client to consume into the WSDL URL field.

    For example, here is the URL for the CalculatorWS web service:

    Example 2.6. 

    http://localhost:8080/CalculatorApplication/CalculatorWSService?wsdl

    When Jakarta XML Web Services implementation generates the web service, it appends Service to the class name by default.

  7. Click Finish.

  8. Right-click the CalculatorWSServletClient project node and choose NewServlet.

  9. Name the servlet ClientServlet, specify the package name, for example, org.me.calculator.client and click Finish.

  10. To make the servlet the entry point to your application, right-click the CalculatorWSServletClient project node, choose Properties, click Run, type /ClientServlet in the Relative URL field, and click OK.

  11. If ClientServlet.java is not already open in the Source Editor, open it.

  12. In the Source Editor, remove the line that comments out the body of the processRequest method.

    This is the start-comment line that starts the section that comments out the code:

    Example 2.7. 

    /* TODO output your page here

  13. Delete the end-comment line that ends the section of commented out code:

    Example 2.8. 

    */

  14. Add some empty lines after the following line:

    Example 2.9. 

    out.println("<h1>Servlet ClientServlet at " +
            request.getContextPath () + "</h1>");

  15. Right-click in one of the empty lines that you added, then choose Insert Code... action and select Call Web Service Operation. Note that for older NetBeans releases, this action was present under "Web Service Client ResourcesCall Web Service Operation".

    Then Select Operation to Invoke dialog box appears.

  16. Browse to the Add operation and click OK.

    The processRequest method is as follows, with bold indicating code added by the IDE:

    Example 2.10. 

    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) 
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println("<html>");
        out.println("<head>");
        out.println("<title>Servlet ClientServlet</title>");
        out.println("</head>");
        out.println("<body>");
        out.println("<h1>Servlet ClientServlet at " + request
                .getContextPath() + "</h1>");
        try { // Call Web Service Operation
            org.me.calculator.client.CalculatorWS port = service
                    .getCalculatorWSPort();
            // TODO initialize WS operation arguments here
            int i = 0;
            int j = 0;
            // TODO process result here
            int result = port.add(i, j);
            out.println("Result = " + result);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            // TODO handle custom exceptions here
        }
        out.println("</body>");
        out.println("</html>");
        out.close();
    }

  17. Change the values for int i and int j to other numbers, such as 3 and 4.

  18. Add a line that prints out an exception, if an exception is thrown.

    The try/catch block is as follows (new and changed lines from this step and the previous step are highlighted in bold text):

    Example 2.11. 

    try { // Call Web Service Operation
        org.me.calculator.client.CalculatorWS port =
                service.getCalculatorWSPort();
        // TODO initialize WS operation arguments here
        int i = 3;
        int j = 4;
        // TODO process result here
        int result = port.add(i, j);
        out.println("<p>Result: " + result);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        out.println("<p>Exception: " + ex);
    }

  19. If Reliable Messaging is enabled, the client needs to close the port when done or the server log will be overwhelmed with messages. To close the port, first add the following line to the import statements at the top of the file:

    Example 2.12. 

    import com.sun.xml.ws.Closeable;

    Then add the line in bold at the end of the try block, as shown below.

    Example 2.13. 

    try { // Call Web Service Operation
        org.me.calculator.client.CalculatorWS port =
                service.getCalculatorWSPort();
        // TODO initialize WS operation arguments here
        int i = 3;
        int j = 4;
        // TODO process result here
        int result = port.add(i, j);
        out.println("<p>Result: " + result);
        ((Closeable)port).close();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        out.println("<p>Exception: " + ex);
    }

  20. Save ClientServlet.java.

  21. Right-click the project node and choose Run.

    The server starts (if it was not running already), the application is built, deployed, and run. The browser opens and displays the calculation result.

    Note

    For NetBeans 6.x and GlassFish v3, if you are getting GlassFish errors with a "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Servlet [CompletionInitiatorPortTypeImpl] and Servlet [ParticipantPortTypeImpl] have the same url pattern" message, make sure the Metro 2.0 JARs were excluded from the client servlet WAR file as explained in Step 19.

2.4. Developing with Eclipse

This document describes developing Metro WebServices on Eclipse. The instructions below are for Eclipse for JavaEE

2.4.1. Setup

This is one time setup.

To setup the environment in Eclipse

  1. After starting Eclipse, select the J2EE perspective: WindowsOpen PerspectiveOthersJ2EE

  2. In the lower window you should see a tab with label Servers. Select the tab and right click in the window and select newServer.

  3. To download the GlassFish server, select Download additional server adapters. Accept the license and wait for Eclipse to restart.

  4. After Eclipse has restarted, you can create a new GlassFish Java EE 5 server.

  5. In the creation dialog select Installed Runtimes and select the directory where your GlassFish installation resides.

2.4.2. Create a Metro Web Services Endpoint

To create a Metro Web Services Endpoint

  1. To create the HelloWorld service, create a new dynamic Web project. Give it a name (e.g. helloworld) and select as target runtime GlassFish

  2. Example 2.14. HelloWorld.java

    package sample;
    
    import javax.jws.WebService;
    
    @WebService
    public class HelloWorld {
        public String hello(String param){
        return param + ", World";
        }
    }              


  3. Deploy the service by selecting the project and select Run asRun on server.

  4. Check in the server Window that the helloworld project has a status of Synchronized. If this is not the case, right-click in the server window and select publish.

  5. You can check that the GlassFish server is started and contains the Web service by going to the GlassFish admin console (localhost:4848)

See Arun's screen cast, it talks about the above steps.

2.4.3. Creating Web Service Client using Wsimport CLI

To create a Web Service Client using Wsimport CLI

  1. Create a new project for the HelloWorld client (an ordinary Java project suffices).

  2. Select Add GlassFish as Server Runtime in Build Path.

  3. Open a command window and go into the source directory of that project in Eclipse. For example, if the Eclipse workspace is in path

    Example 2.15. 

    c:\home\vivekp\workspace


    and the name of the project is HelloWorldClient, then you need to go to

    Example 2.16. 

    c:\home\vivekp\workspace\helloworld\src


    In this directory execute

    Example 2.17. 

    wsimport -keep http://localhost:8080/helloworld/HelloWorldService?wsdl


    On Linux or with Cygwin on Windows, you need to escape the ? by using \? instead.

  4. Select refresh in the project view to see the generated files.

  5. Now you can create the client class HelloWorldClient

  6. You can execute the client, by selecting the HelloWorldClient in the package explorer of Eclipse and selecting RunJava Application. In the console window of Eclipse, you should see "Hello World".

2.4.4. Creating Web Service Client using Wsimport Ant Task

You can pretty much avoid steps 3 - 5 above by using an Ant build.xml file.

To create Web Service Client using Wsimport Ant Task

  1. Select helloworldclient in Package Exp and create a new file build.xml

  2. In this file (build.xml) copy the sample ant build script

  3. Then select build.xml in the package explorer, then right click Run AsAnt Build...

  4. Invoke client target, it will run wsimport ant task and generate the client side stubs

  5. Invoke run to invoke the endpoint and run the client or you can execute the client, by selecting the HelloWorldClient in the package explorer of Eclipse and selecting RunJava Application. In the console window of Eclipse, you should see "Hello World".

2.4.5. Creating Web Service Client using SOAP UI Plugin

To create Web Service Client using SOAP UI Plugin

  1. Inside Eclipse, install SOAP UI Plugin

  2. Select HelpSoftware UpdatesFind and Install...

  3. Press the New Remote Site button and add http://www.soapui.org/eclipse/update/site.xml as the plugin URL

  4. Select Finish and the follow the dialogs to install the soapUI feature

  5. Create a new project for the HelloWorld client (an ordinary Java project suffices).

  6. Select Add GlassFish as Server Runtime in Build Path.

  7. right click BuildPath+Add Library+ServerRuntime+GlassFish

  8. Select the project and right click Soap UIAdd SOAPUI Nature, SOAP UI WebService item will be added in Project Explorer

  9. Select HelloWorldPortBinding and right click GenerateCodeJAX-WS Artifacts

  10. Enter the appropriate info in the JAX-WS Artifacts window

    Figure 2.3. SOAP UI - JAX-WS Artifacts

    SOAP UI - JAX-WS Artifacts


  11. Click Tools and enter the location of Wsimport, for example c:\glassfish\bin

    Figure 2.4. SOAP UI - Preferences

    SOAP UI - Preferences


  12. Click OK

  13. Then click Generate on JAX-WS Artifacts window, it will display a dialog box that the operation was successful. Switch back to Java Perspective, then refresh the src folder and you can see the wsimport generated classes

  14. Now implement your client code

    Example 2.18. HelloWorldClient.java

    package sample;
    
    public class HelloWorldClient {
    
       /**
        * @param args
        */
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            //Create Service
            HelloWorldService service = new HelloWorldService();
    
            //create proxy
            HelloWorld proxy = service.getHelloWorldPort();
    
            //invoke
            System.out.println(proxy.hello("hello"));
        }
    }          


  15. You can execute the client by selecting the HelloWorldClient in the package explorer of Eclipse and selecting RunJava Application. In the console window of Eclipse, you should see "Hello World".

You can also use Wsimport and Wsgen Maven2 tools. For details see here. Netbeans offers an easy to use a comprehensive Metro tooling choice. On Eclipse you can use SOAP UI or ant build script or CLI or even Maven based tools, which does not look bad. There is RFE on Eclipse and looks like it is being looked at. For the Quality Of Service features (WS-* features) it is little difficult as manually creating/modifying WSIT configuration is hard, so we will need an equivalent of the WSIT Plugin in NetBeans for Eclipse. Please let us know if you are willing to write a WSIT plugin for Eclipse.

2.5. Logging

2.5.1. Dynamic tube-based message logging

As you may know, Metro creates a tubeline for each WS endpoint and endoint client to process SOAP messages flowing from and to the endpoint and or its client. Each tubeline consist of a set of tube instances chained together. A tube is a basic SOAP message processing unit. Standard Metro tubes are used to implement processing logic for different SOAP processing aspects (validation, Java-XML mapping etc.) and higher-level QoS domains (security, reliable messaging etc.) As an experimental feature, custom tubes are supported as well.

When developing an advanced web service that requires Quality of Service features or adding a custom tube into the default Metro tubeline, the ability to see the SOAP message content at different processing stages as the message flows through the tubeline may be very useful. As Metro tubeline get's dynamically created for each endpoint or client, Metro (since version 2.0) provides a new message logging facility that copes with the dynamics of a tubeline creation by defining a set of templating rules that provide a generic way for constructing system-level properties able to control message content logging before and/or after each tube's processing.

To turn on the logging for any particular tube (or a set of tubes) created by a specific tube factory, the developer needs to set one or more of the following system properties, depending on the target scope:

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging before and after tube's processing

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.before - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging before tube's processing

    • overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.dump

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.after - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging after tube's processing

    • overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.dump

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.level - expects string representing java.util.logging.Level , if set, overrides the default message dumping level for the class, which is java.util.logging.Level.INFO

There is a set of common system properties that control logging for all tubes and take the lowest precedence so that they can be overriden by a tube-specific properties:

  • com.sun.metro.soap.dump - expects a boolean string, if set to true turns on the message dumping before and after each tube's processing on both sides client and endpoint

  • com.sun.metro.soap.dump.before/after - expects a boolean string, if set to true turns on the message dumping before/after each tube's processing on both sides client and endpoint.

  • com.sun.metro.soap.dump.client/endpoint - expects a boolean string, if set to true turns on the message dumping before and after each tube's processing on the respective side (client or endpoint).

  • com.sun.metro.soap.dump.client/endpoint.before/after - expects a boolean string, if set to true turns on the message dumping before/after each tube's processing on the respective side (client or endpoint).

  • com.sun.metro.soap.dump.level and com.sun.metro.soap.dump.client/endpoint.level - controls the logging level for the whole tubeline

The logger root used for message dumping is <tube_factory_class_name>.

Most of the factories create tubes on both client and endpoint side. To narrow down the message dumping scope, following system properties can be used:

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging before and after tube's processing

    • overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.dump

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint.before - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging before tube's processing

    • overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.dump and/or <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint.after - expects boolean string, if set to true turns on the logging after tube's processing

    • overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.dump and/or <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint

  • <tube_factory_class_name>.dump.client/endpoint.level - expects string representing java.util.logging.Level , if set, overrides anything set by <tube_factory_class_name>.level and or the default message dumping level for the class, which is java.util.logging.Level.INFO

2.5.1.1. Examples

In the following examples we will be working with the metro-default.xml file that defines the default Metro tubeline and looks like this:

Example 2.19. 

<metro xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
       xmlns='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/metro/config'
       version="1.0">
   <tubelines default="#default-metro-tubeline">
      <tubeline name="default-metro-tubeline">
         <client-side>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.TerminalTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.HandlerTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.ValidationTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.MustUnderstandTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.MonitoringTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.AddressingTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.tx.runtime.TxTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.rm.runtime.RmTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.mc.runtime.McTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.dump.ActionDumpTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.testing.PacketFilteringTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.dump.MessageDumpingTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.TransportTubeFactory"/>
         </client-side>
         <endpoint-side>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.TransportTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.dump.MessageDumpingTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.testing.PacketFilteringTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.dump.ActionDumpTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.mc.runtime.McTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.AddressingTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.rx.rm.runtime.RmTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.tx.runtime.TxTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.MonitoringTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.MustUnderstandTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.HandlerTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.ValidationTubeFactory"/>
            <tube-factory
                    className="com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.jaxws.TerminalTubeFactory"/>
         </endpoint-side>
      </tubeline>
   </tubelines>
</metro>

Example 1

To turn on the the message dumping before and after security tube's processing on both, client and endpoint side, following system property needs to be set to true:

com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump=true
com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump=true
Example 2

To turn on the the message dumping only after security tube's processing on both, client and server side, following system property needs to be set to true:

com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.after=true
com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.after=true
Example 3

To turn on the the message dumping only after security tube's processing only on the client side, following system property needs to be set to true:

com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.client.after=true
com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.client.after=true
Example 4

This example sets message dumping before and after security processing, except for before security processing on the endpoint side. The logging level for message dumps is set to FINE on both sides:

com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump=true
com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.endpoint.before=false
com.sun.xml.wss.provider.wsit.SecurityTubeFactory.dump.level=FINE

2.5.2. Dumping SOAP messages on client

2.5.2.1. Transport level dump

One of the things people want to do while developing Web Services is to look at what the client is sending and receiving. To monitor soap traffic, there are some GUI tools like TCP Monitor and WSMonitor. These monitors are implemented with a 'man in the middle' approach where-in, the monitor listens to a port (Client send requests to this port) and forwards it to another port (Server listens to this port). Since these tools use port forwarding, you need to change your Web Service client to send request to the port where the monitor listens (Especially, if you are using static clients generated by wsimport, the default endpoint address taken from the wsdl needs to be overidden by setting ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY on the proxy).

In Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services, you can monitor the request and response messages without changing the client. When you invoke the Web Service, just pass the system property com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true, it prints out the request and response message.

If you are using an Apache Ant script to run your client, this system property can be set as a <jvmarg/> element:

Example 2.20. Setting system properties via Ant

<project name="metro client" basedir=".">
   <property environment="env"/>
   <property name="build.dir" location="$${basedir}/build"/>
   <property name="build.classes.dir" location="$${build.dir}/classes"/>

   <target name="run">
      <java classname="client.MyClient" fork="yes">
         <arg value="xxx"/>
         <!-- optional args[0] sent to MyClient.main() -->
         <arg value="xxx"/>
         <!-- optional args[1], etc. -->
         <classpath>
            <pathelement location="$${build.classes.dir}"/>
            <pathelement location="$${env.AS_HOME}/lib/javaee.jar"/>
            <pathelement location="$${env.AS_HOME}/lib/webservices-rt.jar"/>
            <pathelement location="$${env.AS_HOME}/lib/activation.jar"/>
         </classpath>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcom
         .sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true"/>
      </java>
   </target>
</project>

Alternatively you can execute com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true; from your Java program to programatically enable/disable logging. Since you often run XML Web Services in a container where setting system properties can be tedious, you might find this easier.

With this switch enabled, you'll see message dumps like the following in System.out.

Example 2.21. Sample dump

---[HTTP request]---
SOAPAction: 
Content-Type: text/xml
Accept: text/xml, multipart/related, text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
<?xml version="1.0" ?><S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><S:Body><addNumbers xmlns="http://duke.example.org"><arg0>10</arg0><arg1>20</arg1></addNumbers></S:Body></S:Envelope>--------------------

---[HTTP response 200]---
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:35:42 GMT
Content-type: text/xml
Transfer-encoding: chunked
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
null: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

<?xml version="1.0" ?><S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><S:Body><addNumbersResponse xmlns="http://duke.example.org"><return>30</return></addNumbersResponse></S:Body></S:Envelope>--------------------

A similar property com.sun.xml.ws.transport.local.LocalTransportPipe.dump=true is available for the local transport.

2.5.2.2. Transport-agnostic dump

The dump mechanism explained above allows you to get the actual bytes that are sent over the wire, as well as any transport specific information (such as HTTP headers), but the mechanism is different from transports to transports. Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services also defines a transport-agnostic dump, which works regardless of what transport you use.

This dump happens after Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services parses the incoming message into XML infoset. So you will not be able to investigate a well-formedness error with this dump.

To enable such dump, set the system property com.sun.xml.ws.util.pipe.StandaloneTubeAssembler.dump=true or execute that as a Java program.

2.5.3. Dumping SOAP messages on server

You can dump incoming HTTP requests and responses to System.out on the server side by using the system property com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true. This works exactly like above (except that this works on server, not client.) You can also set this property programatically by executing com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true; as Java progrma.

The transport agnostic dump as explained above also works on the server for incoming messages and responses.

2.6. Using Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services / Metro with Java SE

2.6.1. Using Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services with Java SE

Java SE ships with JAX-WS API and implementation. Unless you are taking precautions, applications that use the Jakarta XML Web Services API will run with the JAX-WS API version built into Java SE and not a newer version of Jakarta XML Web Services on the application classpath. Applications that use new functions of the Jakarta XML Web Services API will therefore fail to run. This section discusses how to work around this issue by using the endorsed standards override mechanism.

Java SE 11 does not include the JAX-WS API at all and does not suffer from the issues discussed in this chapter.

2.6.1.1. Endorsed directory

You can upgrade to Jakarta XML Web Services by copying jakarta.xml.ws-api.jar and jakarta.xml.bind-api.jar into the JRE endorsed directory, which is $JRE_HOME/lib/endorsed (or $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/endorsed). (Both of these JARs are available in the Eclipse implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services download.) The directory might not exist yet and in that case you will have to create it yourself.

Some application containers, such as GlassFish, Tomcat, modify the location of the endorsed directory to a different place. From inside the JVM, you can check the current location by doing System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.endorsed.dirs"));

Obviously you still need all the other JAX-WS jars in your classpath.

Please do not put all JAX-WS jars into the endorsed directory. This makes it impossible for JAX-WS RI to see other classes that it needs for its operation, such as Servlet classes on the server-side, or Ant classes in the tool time. As those are not loaded by the bootstrap classloader, you will get NoClassDefError on Servlet/Ant classes.

Also consider that by putting the JAX-WS libraries into $JRE_HOME/lib/endorsed, all applications running under this Java installation will run with the endorsed JAX-WS libraries.

2.6.2. Using Metro with Java SE

Metro ships with the Jakarta XML Web Services API, Java SE contain JAX-WS API. Unless you are taking precautions, applications that use the Jakarta XML Web Services API will run with the JAX-WS API version built into Java SE and not with the Jakarta XML Web Services API built into Metro on the application classpath. Applications that use new functions of the Jakarta XML Web Services API or other Metro functionality will therefore fail to run.

Do not install any other Jakarta XML Web Services or Metro libraries than the ones discussed below into an endorsed directory at the same time, otherwise Metro code may not be able to load classes from the application classpath.

2.6.2.1. Tomcat

If you are running an application in Tomcat, make sure you are using the metro-on-tomcat.xml installation script. They will copy all files into the Tomcat specific endorsed directories. Without that step, web applications and EJBs will not be able to pick up the proper Jakarta XML Web Services API. In other words, including the Metro libraries in the WEB-INF/lib of a web application does not make use of the endorsed mechanism and the Jakarta XML Web Services API cannot be used by the web application.

2.6.2.2. GlassFish

If you are running an application in GlassFish, Metro is already included. You may install updates with the metro-on-glassfish.xml Ant script.

2.6.2.3. Stand-alone applications

If you want to run an application or Web Service client outside the Tomcat or GlassFish containers, you have to install the file webservices-api.jar into the JRE endorsed directory, $JRE_HOME/lib/endorsed (or $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/endorsed). The directory might not exist yet and in that case you will have to create it yourself.

Alternatively, you can set the Java system property java.endorsed.dirs to an application specific directory and copy the files there. See endorsed standards override mechanism for more details on how to set an application specific endorsed directory.

You may also use the metro-on-glassfish.xml or metro-on-tomcat.xml Ant scripts to do the installation of webservices-api.jar into the JRE endorsed directory for you. Simply invoke ant -f metro-on-glassfish.xml install-api. The install-api target will only install webservices-api.jar and will not install Metro into Tomcat or GlassFish. Note that you need to run this command as a user that has write permissions to the JRE endorsed directory.

2.7. Deploying Metro endpoint

Before you deploy or publish your endpoint, you will need to package your endpoint application into a WAR file. The requirements when building a WAR:

  • All WSDLs, Schema files should be packaged under WEB-INF/wsdl dir. It is recommended not to package the WSDL if you are doing Java-first development.

  • WebService implementation class should contain @WebService annotation. Provider based endpoints should have @WebServiceProvider annotation.

  • wsdl, service, port attributes are mandatory for Provider based endpoints and can be specified in @WebServiceProvider annotation or deployment descriptor (sun-jaxws.xml).

  • Deployment descriptors, web.xml, web services deployment descriptor (sun-jaxws.xml or 109 or spring)

2.7.1. The WAR Contents

Typically, one creates the WAR file with a GUI development tool or with the ant war task from the generated artifacts from wsimport, wsgen, or apt tools.

For example, a sample WAR file starting from a WSDL file:

Example 2.22. Sample WAR contents (WSDL First)

WEB-INF/classes/hello/HelloIF.class SEI
WEB-INF/classes/hello/HelloImpl.class Endpoint
WEB-INF/sun-jaxws.xml JAX-WS RI deployment descriptor
WEB-INF/web.xml Web deployment descriptor
WEB-INF/wsdl/HelloService.wsdl WSDL
WEB-INF/wsdl/schema.xsd WSDL imports this Schema

2.7.2. Using sun-jaxws.xml

Metro defines its own deployment descriptor, which is also known as deployment descriptor of the Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services- sun-jaxws.xml.

Here is the schema for sun-jaxws.xml:

Example 2.23. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--

    Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

    This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
    terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0, which is available at
    http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.

    SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

-->

<xsd:schema
        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xmlns:tns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
        xmlns:javaee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        targetNamespace="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
        elementFormDefault="qualified"
        attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
        version="1.0">

    <xsd:import namespace="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
                schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/javaee_web_services_metadata_handler_2_0.xsd"/>

    <xsd:element name="endpoints">
        <xsd:complexType>
            <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="endpoint" type="tns:endpointType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
            <xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
        </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:element>

    <xsd:complexType name="externalMetadata">
        <xsd:attribute name="file" type="xsd:string" use="optional"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="resource" type="xsd:string" use="optional"/>
    </xsd:complexType>

    <xsd:complexType name="endpointType">
        <xsd:annotation>
            <xsd:documentation>
                An endpoint definition has several attributes:
                <ul>
                    <li>name</li>
                    - the endpoint name
                    <li>implementation</li>
                    - the name of the endpoint implementation class
                    <li>wsdl</li>
                    - the name of a resource corresponding to the WSDL document for the endpoint
                    <li>service</li>
                    - the QName of the WSDL service that owns this endpoint;
                    <li>port</li>
                    - the QName of the WSDL port for this endpoint;
                    <li>url-pattern</li>
                    - the URL pattern this endpoint is mapped to.
                    <li>binding</li>
                    - specify binding id for SOAP1.1 or SOAP1.2
                    <li>databinding</li>
                    - specify databinding type - "glassfish.jaxb" for JAX-B RI (default), "eclipselink.jaxb" for Toplink
                    MOXy
                    <li>enable-mtom</li>
                    - Enables MTOM optimization
                </ul>
                <p>
                    <b>wsdl, service, port</b>
                    attributes are required for provider based endpoints
                </p>
                <p>Allowed nested element(s) is
                    <b>external-metadata</b>
                    defining xml descriptor to be used to supplement or override annotation metadata. One element
                    defines one resource/file.
                </p>
            </xsd:documentation>
        </xsd:annotation>

        <xsd:sequence>
            <xsd:element name="external-metadata" type="tns:externalMetadata" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            <xsd:element ref="javaee:handler-chains" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="implementation" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="wsdl" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="service" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="port" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="url-pattern" type="xsd:anyURI" use="required"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="databinding" type="xsd:string"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="binding" type="xsd:string"/>
        <xsd:attribute name="enable-mtom" type="xsd:boolean"/>
    </xsd:complexType>

</xsd:schema>

The <endpoints> element contain one or more <endpoint> elements. Each endpoint represents a port in the WSDL and it contains all information about implementation class, servlet url-pattern, binding, WSDL, service, port QNames. The following shows a sun-jaxws.xml file for a simple HelloWorld service. sun-jaxws.xml is the schema instance of sun-jaxws.xml.

Example 2.24. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<endpoints
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
        version="2.0">
    <endpoint
            name="MyHello"
            implementation="hello.HelloImpl"
            url-pattern="/hello"/>
</endpoints>

  • Endpoint attribute

    Table 2.1. Endpoint attributes

    AttributeOptionalUse
    nameNName of the endpoint
    wsdlYPrimary wsdl file location in the WAR file. E.g. WEB-INF/wsdl/HelloService.wsdl. If this isn't specified, Metro runtime will generate and publish a new WSDL. When the service is developed from Java, it is recommended to omit this attribute.
    serviceYQName of WSDL service. For e.g. {http://example.org/}HelloService. When the service is developed from java, it is recommended to omit this attribute.
    portYQName of WSDL port. For e.g. {http://example.org/}HelloPort. When the service is developed from Java, it is recommended to omit this attribute.
    implementationNEndpoint implementation class name. For e.g: hello.HelloImpl. The class should have @WebService annotation. Provider based implementation class should have @WebServiceProvider annotation.
    url-patternNShould match <url-pattern> in web.xml
    bindingYBinding id defined in the Jakarta XML Web Services API. The possible values are: "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/http","http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/bindings/HTTP/" If omitted, it is considered SOAP1.1 binding.
    enable-mtomYEnables MTOM optimization. true or false. Default is false.


  • Specifying Handler Chains

    Example 2.25. 

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <endpoints xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
               version="2.0">
        <endpoint name="MyHello">
            <handler-chains xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
                <handler-chain>
                    <handler>
                        <handler-name>MyHandler</handler-name>
                        <handler-class>hello.MyHandler</handler-class>
                    </handler>
                </handler-chain>
            <handler-chains>
        </endpoint>
    </endpoints>    


  • External Web Service Metadata

    Example 2.26. 

    If there is a need to use existing implementation for web service and it is impossible to change the source code to provide necessary java annotations, it is possible to use external web service metadata configuration. For more information on this topic see External Web Service Metadata

    <?xml encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0" ?>
    <endpoints xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime" version="2.0">
        <endpoint implementation="org.example.server.BlackboxService" url-pattern="/WS" name="WS">
            <external-metadata resource="external-metadata-org.example.server.BlackboxService.xml" />
        </endpoint>
    </endpoints>


2.7.2.1. The web.xml File

The following shows a web.xml file for a simple HelloWorld service. It shows the listener and servlet classes that need to be used when deploying Metro-based web services.

Example 2.27. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
        "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
        "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
   <listener>
      <listener-class>
         com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
      </listener-class>
   </listener>
   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>hello</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>hello</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
   <session-config>
      <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
   </session-config>
</web-app>

2.8. Handlers and MessageContext

2.8.1. Efficient Handlers in Metro

Extend your Web Service applications with the new efficient Handlers in Eclipse Metro : Use this RI extension to take advantage of the Eclipse Metro Message API for efficient access to message and other contextual information.

2.9. Deploying Metro with ...

2.9.1. WebLogic 12

Here are the steps to use the Metro 2.x/Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web services instead of Oracle's JAX-WS implementation in Weblogic 12.1.1.0 without affecting the Weblogic domain or other applications under the same domain:

  1. Create an EAR file and include your WAR file inside it. Here is the directory structure of the EAR file:

    • META-INF/

    • META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

    • META-INF/application.xml

    • META-INF/weblogic-application.xml

    • metro-custom-tubes.war (your .war application)

    • APP-INF/

    • APP-INF/lib/

    • APP-INF/lib/stax-api.jar

    • APP-INF/lib/webservices-api.jar

    • APP-INF/lib/webservices-extra-api.jar

    • APP-INF/lib/webservices-extra.jar

    • APP-INF/lib/webservices-rt.jar

    • APP-INF/lib/webservices-tools.jar

    • APP-INF/classes/

  2. Include a META-INF/application.xml file to point out the name of the EAR file and the location and context of the WAR file:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
                 xmlns:application="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd"
                 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
                     http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd"
                 id="Application_ID" version="5">
      <module>
        <web>
          <web-uri>metro-custom-tubes.war</web-uri>
          <context-root>metro-custom-tubes</context-root>
        </web>
      </module>  
    </application>
  3. Include a META-INF/weblogic-application.xml file that uses Weblogic's class loading filtering feature to override the System class loader packages and resources with the ones from the application class loader:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <wls:weblogic-application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xmlns:wls="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application"
            xsi:schemaLocation="
                http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application
                http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application.xsd
                http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
                http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/j2ee_1_4.xsd">
        <wls:application-param>
            <wls:param-name>webapp.encoding.default</wls:param-name>
            <wls:param-value>UTF-8</wls:param-value>
        </wls:application-param>
        <prefer-application-packages>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.tools</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.vocab</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.util</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.stax.events</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.stax</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.stax.factory</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.stax.util</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.sax</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.dom</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.algorithm</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.org.apache.xerces.util</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.alphabet</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>org.jvnet.fastinfoset</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>org.jvnet.fastinfoset.sax</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>org.jvnet.fastinfoset.sax.helpers</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>org.jvnet.fastinfoset.stax</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.util</wls:package-name>
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         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.config.metro.util</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.server</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.server.sei</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.server.provider</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.dump</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.db</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.db.glassfish</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.message</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.message.source</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.message.saaj</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.message.jaxb</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.message.stream</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.model</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.model.soap</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.model.wsdl</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.commons.xmlutil</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.server</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.resources</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.protocol.xml</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.protocol.soap</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.xml</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.soap.streaming</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.soap</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.policy</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.xmlns.webservices.jaxws_databinding</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.webservices.api</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.webservices.api.databinding</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.webservices.api.message</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.webservices.impl.internalspi.encoding</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.oracle.webservices.impl.encoding</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.fastinfoset</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.httpspi.servlet</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.developer.servlet</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.server.servlet</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.api.impl</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.core</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.util</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.nav</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.schemagen.episode</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.bind.annotation</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.istack.localization</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.istack</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.istack.logging</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.txw2</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.txw2.output</wls:package-name>
         <wls:package-name>com.sun.xml.txw2.annotation</wls:package-name>
      
        </prefer-application-packages>
         <wls:prefer-application-resources>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/javax.xml.stream.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/javax.xml.ws.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/javax.xml.bind.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/javax.xml.soap.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/com.sun.xml.ws.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/com.sun.tools.ws.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/com.sun.tools.xjc.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/com.oracle.webservices.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>META-INF/services/org.relxng.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.resources.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.util.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.*</wls:resource-name>    
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.tools.ws.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.tools.xjc.*</wls:resource-name>    
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.xsom.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.xsom.impl.parser.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.tools.jxc.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.ws.policy.privateutil.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>javax.xml.bind.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.api.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.annotation.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.schemagen.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.unmarshaller.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.ws.util.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.ws.resources.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.v2.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.*</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>complexType.rng</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>element.rng</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>simpleType.rng</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>modelGroup.rng</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>xmlschema.rng</wls:resource-name>
          <wls:resource-name>attribute.rng</wls:resource-name>     
          <wls:resource-name>include.rng</wls:resource-name>            
        </wls:prefer-application-resources>
       
    
    </wls:weblogic-application>
  4. Make sure the webservices-*.jar files are placed in the APP-INF/lib directory.

  5. Make sure any Metro classes you are overriding are placed in the APP-INF/classes directory.

  6. Here is the directory structure of the WAR file:

    • META-INF/

    • META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

    • WEB-INF/

    • WEB-INF/web.xml

    • WEB-INF/sun-jaxws.xml

    • WEB-INF/weblogic.xml

    • WEB-INF/metro.xml

    • WEB-INF/wsdl/

    • WEB-INF/wsdl/AddNumbers.wsdl

    • WEB-INF/classes/

    • WEB-INF/classes/*

  7. Include a WEB-INF\weblogic.xml file with the prefer-web-inf-classes entry to override the System class loader classes with the ones in the WEB-INF\lib directory:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <weblogic-web-app xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90">
        <container-descriptor>
            <prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>
        </container-descriptor>
    </weblogic-web-app>

2.9.1.1. Known Issues

  1. Make sure your web.xml file does not include the <display-name> and <description> elements under <servlet> element because they are not supported in the following 2.4 or 2.5 Web Deployment Descriptor XSDs:

    Weblogic will throw this schema validation error if they are present:

    Message icon - Error VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND problem: 
    cvc-complex-type.2.4a: Expected elements 
    'servlet-class@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee  
    jsp-file@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee' instead of 
    'display-name@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee' here in element 
    servlet@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee:<null> problem: cvc-complex-type.2.4a: 
    Expected elements 'servlet-class@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee  
    jsp-file@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee' instead of 
    'description@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee' here in element 
    servlet@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee:<null>
  2. Make sure any Oneway methods / operations in your service implementation class have the @Oneway annotation in order to avoid this NullPointerException:

    com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener contextInitialized 
         SEVERE: WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: 
    java.lang.NullPointerException 
         java.lang.NullPointerException 
             at com.sun.xml.ws.model.JavaMethodImpl.freeze(JavaMethodImpl.java:375) 
             at com.sun.xml.ws.model.AbstractSEIModelImpl.freeze(AbstractSEIModelImpl
  3. If you're getting an exception similar to the following one, extract the contents of the file MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.zip into the APP-INF/classes directory in the EAR (subclasses MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.Address and MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.Elements have been annotated with @XmlType(name="elements", namespace=MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.MSNS) and @XmlType(name="address", namespace=MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.MSNS) respectively and recompiled). Make sure to preserve the hierarchy of the file (all classes from the file should be located in the directory APP-INF/classes/com/sun/xml/ws/developer/).

    com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate doGet
    SEVERE: caught throwable
    java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
            at com.sun.xml.ws.api.addressing.WSEndpointReference.toSpec(WSEndpointReference.java:637)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.rx.rm.runtime.ServerTube.handleCreateSequenceAction(ServerTube.java:334)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.rx.rm.runtime.ServerTube.processProtocolMessage(ServerTube.java:302)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.rx.rm.runtime.ServerTube.processRequest(ServerTube.java:169)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:641)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:600)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:585)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:482)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.server.WSEndpointImpl$2.process(WSEndpointImpl.java:314)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:608)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:259)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.invokeAsync(ServletAdapter.java:213)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doGet(WSServletDelegate.java:159)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doPost(WSServletDelegate.java:194)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet.doPost(WSServlet.java:80)
            at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:751)
            at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:844)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:242)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:216)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:132)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:352)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:235)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.wrapRun(WebAppServletContext.java:3284)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3254)
            at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
            at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
            at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.doSecuredExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2163)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2089)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2074)
            at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1512)
            at weblogic.servlet.provider.ContainerSupportProviderImpl$WlsRequestExecutor.run(ContainerSupportProviderImpl.java:254)
            at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:256)
            at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:221)
    Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Error creating JAXBContext for W3CEndpointReference.
            at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl$2.run(ProviderImpl.java:266)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl$2.run(ProviderImpl.java:262)
            at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.getEPRJaxbContext(ProviderImpl.java:261)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.<clinit>(ProviderImpl.java:95)
            ... 34 more
    Caused by: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 2 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions
    Two classes have the same XML type name "address". Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them.
            this problem is related to the following location:
                    at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Address
                    at public com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Address com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.address
                    at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference
            this problem is related to the following location:
                    at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Address
                    at private javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Address javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference.address
                    at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference
    Two classes have the same XML type name "elements". Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them.
            this problem is related to the following location:
                    at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Elements
                    at public com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Elements com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.referenceProperties
                    at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference
            this problem is related to the following location:
                    at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Elements
                    at private javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Elements javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference.referenceParameters
                    at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference
    
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException$Builder.check(IllegalAnnotationsException.java:106)
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:466)
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:298)
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:141)
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl$JAXBContextBuilder.build(JAXBContextImpl.java:1157)
            at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:145)
            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
            at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
            at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:263)
            at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:250)
            at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:447)
            at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:652)
            at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:599)
            at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl$2.run(ProviderImpl.java:264)
            ... 38 more

2.10. Developing client application with locally packaged WSDL

In the JAX-WS programming model, to develop a web services client you compile the deployed WSDL using wsimport and then at runtime the same WSDL is used to determine binding information. The default WSDL used can be determined by looking in the javax.xml.ws.Service subclass generated by wsimport. You can choose another location (network or local file directory) for the WSDL other than the one you used wsimport with, for example if you do not want runtime accesses of the WSDL to go over the network or if you want to edit a copy of the WSDL to work around some bug (dangerous but we do it sometimes).

There are the different ways in which you can provide the local WSDL information to the JAX-WS runtime:

2.10.1. Service API to pass the WSDL information

Example 2.28. Sample service creation using local WSDL

URL baseUrl = client.MtomService.class.getResource(".");
URL url = new URL(baseUrl, "../Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml");
MtomService service = new MtomService(url, new QName("http://tempuri.org/", "MtomService"));
IMtomTest proxy = service.getBasicHttpBindingIMtomTest();
String input="Hello World";
byte[] response = proxy.echoStringAsBinary(input);

2.10.2. Xml Catalog

  • Create a catalog file

  • META-INF/jax-ws-catalog.xml

    Example 2.29. jax-ws-catalog.xml

    <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog" prefer="system">
        <system systemId="http://131.107.72.15/MTOM_Service_Indigo/Soap11MtomUtf8.svc?wsdl"
                uri="Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml"/>
    </catalog>


  • For details see the details on using catalog scheme

This works well but requires some work, such as composing the right catalog file then package it appropriately.

2.10.3. Using -wsdlLocation switch

There is another easy way to do it - just run wsimport with -wsdlLocation switch and provide the WSDL location value which is relative to the generated Service class and provide the WSDL location value which is relative to the generated Service class and you need to put this WSDL file at this relative location.

Let us try to create a client for the NET 3.0 MTOM endpoint. I am using Metro 1.0.

First I save the .NET 3.0 MTOM WSDL locally then run wsimport giving the relative location to where you will package the wsdl with your application

Example 2.30. Sample wsimport command

wsimport -keep -d build/classes -p client etc/Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml -wsdlLocation ../Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml

Note

Why is the relative location is ../Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml? Basically the generated Service will be at build/classes/client location and I would copy this WSDL at build/classes, see option -d and -p.

Here is excerpt from the generated MtomService class. You can see how the wsdlLocation value is generated inside it and is used internally to create the Service.

Example 2.31. MtomService.java

/**
 * This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI.
 * JAX-WS RI 2.1.2-hudson-53-SNAPSHOT
 * Generated source version: 2.1
 */
@WebServiceClient(name = "MtomService",
        targetNamespace = "http://tempuri.org/",
        "../Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml")
public class MtomService extends Service {

    private final static URL MTOMSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION;
    private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(client
            .MtomService.class.getName());

    static {
        URLurl = null;
        try {
            URLbaseUrl;

            baseUrl = client.MtomService.class.getResource(".");
            url = new URL(baseUrl, "../Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml");
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            logger.warning("Failed to create URL for the wsdl Location: ." +
                    "./Soap11MtomUtf8.svc.xml");
            logger.warning(e.getMessage());
        }
        MTOMSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION = url;
    }

    public MtomService() {
        super(MTOMSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION,
                new QName("http://tempuri.org/", "MtomService"));
    }

    ...
    

See Client.java below it invokes the .NET 3.0 service. You may notice here that you dont need to enable MTOM explicitly. Metro bring in .NET 3.0 interop thru WSIT and due to this the MTOM policy assertions in the .NET 3.0 WSDL, it correctly interpreted and the IMtomTest port is configured with MTOM enabled.

Example 2.32. MtomService.java

package client;

import com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe;

/**
 * Client that invokes .NET 3.0 MTOM endpoint using a local wsdl
 */
public class Client {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //enble SOAP Message logging
        HttpTransportPipe.dump = true;

        //Create IMtomTest proxy to invoke .NET 3.0 MTOM service
        IMtomTest proxy = new MtomService().getBasicHttpBindingIMtomTest();
        String input = "Hello World";
        byte[] response = proxy.echoStringAsBinary(input);
        System.out.println("Sent: " + input + ", Received: " + new String
                (response));
    }
}

Get the complete client bundle from here and see the enclosed Readme.txt for instructions on how to run it.

2.11. How to invoke and endpoint by overriding endpoint address in the WSDL

Often times there is need to override the endpoint address that is obtained from the WSDL referenced by the generated Service class. This is how you can do this:

2.11.1. BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY

You can use BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY to set the endpoint address in your client application code.

Example 2.33. Sample

//Create service and proxy from the generated Service class.
HelloService service = new HelloService();
HelloPort proxy = service.getHelloPort();

((BindingProvider) proxy).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider
        .ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, "http://new/endpointaddress");

proxy.sayHello("Hello World!");           

2.11.2. Create Service using updated WSDL

In case you have access to the updated WSDL which has the right endpoint address, you can simply create the Service using this WSDL and there will be no need to set the BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS property.

Note

This updated WSDL must have the same wsdl:service and wsdl:port as in the original wsdl. Otherwise you may get an error while creating the Service or Port.

Example 2.34. Sample

//Create service and proxy from the generated Service class.
HelloService service = new HelloService(serviceName,
        "http://new/endpointaddress?wsdl");
HelloPort proxy = service.getHelloPort();

proxy.sayHello("Hello World!");

2.12. Maintaining State in Web Services

These articles provide details on maintaing state with Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services.

2.13. FastInfoset

The Fast Infoset specification (ITU-T Rec. X.891 | ISO/IEC 24824-1) describes an open, standards-based "binary XML" format that is based on the XML Information Set. Metro supports this optimized encoding implementation. For ease of deployment, Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Web Services also support a form of HTTP content negotiation that can be used to turn on Fast Infoset during message exchanges. By default, the Fast Infoset encoding is turned off. For more information on how to use this feature see the following section.

The XML Information Set specifies the result of parsing an XML document, referred to as an XML infoset (or simply an infoset), and a glossary of terms to identify infoset components, referred to as information items and properties. An XML infoset is an abstract model of the information stored in an XML document; it establishes a separation between data and information in a way that suits most common uses of XML. In fact, several of the concrete XML data models are defined by referring to XML infoset items and their properties. For example, SOAP Version 1.2 makes use of this abstraction to define the information in a SOAP message without ever referring to XML 1.X, and the SOAP HTTP binding specifically allows for alternative media types that "provide for at least the transfer of the SOAP XML Infoset".

The Fast Infoset specification is jointly standardized at the ITU-T and ISO. The specification is available to all ITU-T sector members and can also be obtained via the corresponding ISO national body in your location. These specifications recommend the use of the MIME type application/fastinfoset, which has been approved by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) for documents serialized using this format.

FI is an open-source project initiated by Sun Microsystems to provide access to a fast, fully-featured and robust implementation of the Fast Infoset specification. Metro employs the basic Fast Infoset parsers and serializers available from that project.

2.13.1. Using FastInfoset

Content negotiation is completely driven by the client and uses the standard HTTP headers Accept and Content-Type. The initial request is always encoded in XML, but the client has the option of including the MIME type application/fastinfoset as part of the HTTP Accept header list. If the request is received by a Fast Infoset-enabled service, the reply will be encoded in Fast Infoset. The remainder of the conversation between the client and the service will also be encoded in Fast Infoset as long as the client continues to use the same client object (e.g., the same stub instance) to converse with the server. We call this form of negotiation pessimistic, in contrast to the optimistic case in which a client directly initiates a message exchange using the more efficient encoding.

Content negotiation can be enabled in two different ways: (i) by setting a system property on the VM used to run the client, and (ii) by setting a property on the proxy object. In either case, both the property name and its value are identical. For Eclipse Metro, the name of the property is com.sun.xml.ws.client.ContentNegotiation. In either case, the accepted property values are none (the default) and pessimistic, optimistic. Note that due to JDK repackaging, if you are using JAX-WS implementation directly from JDK you need to use this property name: com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.ContentNegotiation.

Example 2.35. Enabling FastInfoset by configuring proxy

// Enabling FI in pessimistic mode
Map<String, Object> ctxt = ((BindingProvider)proxy).getRequestContext();
ctxt.put("com.sun.xml.ws.client.ContentNegotiation", "pessimistic");

java -Dcom.sun.xml.ws.client.ContentNegotiation=pessimistic ...

2.14. High Availability Support in Metro

Starting with the Metro 2.1 release Metro officially supports deployment in clustered environment configurations including the support for stateful Metro features, namely Reliable Messaging (see High Availability Support in Reliable Messaging for limitations), Secure Conversation, Security NONCE Manager and Stateful Web Services. Currently this support is tested with and limited to the GlassFish Application Server.

Clustering support in Metro is automatic, which means that once configured and enabled in the container, there is no extra configuration required on the Metro side to enable Metro High Availability support. The GlassFish Metro Glue Module that is responsible for Metro - GlassFish integration does all the necessary configuration automatically during the Metro module initialization by injecting the required configuration information into the Metro runtime using a private API contract.

For more information on configuring Clustering environment in GlassFish, please consult the GlassFish Application Server User Guide or watch this very comprehensible basic screencast or another a more recent screen cast available at The GlassFish YouTube Channel.

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