Configuring Axis
Now, you need to configure your Axis class and setup the parameters of the Web service. This will require creating a special deploy.wsdd file. You don't need to configure too many of its options, but in case you ever need to, this file is very well documented at Apache Axis' Deployment (WSDD) Reference. For now, however, you will need only a few options:
<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">
<service name="webservice" provider="java:RPC" style="rpc" use="encoded">
<parameter name="wsdlTargetNamespace"
value="urn:soap.springaxis.prokhorenko.us"/>
<parameter name="className"
value="us.prokhorenko.springaxis.soap.WebServiceImpl"/>
<parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
</service>
</deployment>
Define the service name as webservice. This name is used to deploy and undeploy an Axis service. className defines the backend implementation class, which is us.prokhorenko.springaxis.soap.WebServiceImpl (WebServiceImpl.java). Use allowedMethods to determine which methods are allowed to be exposed as Web services; in this example, you are allowing everything. At least, wsdlTargetNamespace defines the namespace for this service, which is set to urn:soap.springaxis.prokhorenko.us.
Now, the add Axis configuration to the web.xml file:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
<display-name>Apache-Axis Servlet</display-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/soap/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The most important thing to note is the mapping: the code maps /soap/ to Axis' Web services.
Building Everything
This example uses the Apache Ant tool for building the project into WAR. The build.xml is pretty standard and normally would not require any changes except for the Axis configuration:
<target name="prepaxis" depends="compwar">
<echo message=" **** Preparing Axis "/>
<java classname="org.apache.axis.utils.Admin"
fork="true"
failonerror="true"
classpathref="compile.class.path"
dir="${build}\WEB-INF\">
<arg value="server" />
<arg file="src/java/us/prokhorenko/springaxis/soap/deploy.wsdd" />
</java>
</target>
It sets the file option which points to the deploy.wsdd configuration file. And you may also need to set the proper values in the properties.xml file.
Here's how the sample building and deploying process looks:
Buildfile: build.xml
compwar:
[echo] **** Compiling WAR
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\white\work\Java\sa\build\WEB-INF\classes
[javac] Compiling 5 source files to C:\white\work\Java\sa\build\WEB-INF\classes
prepaxis:
[echo] **** Preparing Axis
[java] - Unable to find required classes (javax.activation.DataHandler and
javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is disabled.
[java] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
[java] <Admin>Done processing</Admin>
prepwar:
[echo] **** Preparing WAR
packwar:
[echo] **** Packing WAR
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\white\work\Java\sa\dist
[war] Building war: C:\white\work\Java\sa\dist\springaxis.war
all:
deploy:
[echo] **** Deploying WAR
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\webapps
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 16 seconds
Now the application is deployed and ready to serve.
Running
The source code for this article includes a sample SOAP client. It will allow you to easily test your Web service configuration and confirm that everything's working as it's supposed to. The client is configured to use the endpoint http://localhost:8080/springaxis/soap/webservice. It calls the doSomeWork() method and passes "TheNameOfWork" as an
argument. After building and deploying, you'll be able to run this client at http://localhost:8080/springaxis/SOAP.html
Hopefully, this gives you a detailed and easy-to-repeat tutorial on enabling methods from business logic as Web services.
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