Spring-ws client with Jax-ws web service

[Turian Vlad]

Recently i needed to work with webservices. I've studied them (contract first vs. contract last) and i've:

- implemented a Spring-WS web service
- implemented a JAX-WS web service
- consumed the first one using a Spring-ws client and a normal JAX-WS client
- consumed the second one using a normal jax-ws client

I wan't now to be able to consume a JAX-WS web service from a Spring-WS client.

I assume that this is something that can be done. but i don't know how.

Do you have experience with such a thing or do you saw tutorials on it, because I didn't find any!

Thank you,
Vlad

[Naren Chivukula]

Hi Turian,

I wan't now to be able to consume a JAX-WS web service from a Spring-WS client.

Isn't this similar to what you did earlier? All you have to do is to provide provide JAX-WS web service WSDL to Spring WS client code. What problems are you getting?

[Turian Vlad]

Well this is what i have done so far:

Using the xsd generated by the jax-ws web service i've generated the required classes using the xjc command.

in the client:

@Service(value = "personClientImpl")
public class PersonClientImpl extends WebServiceGatewaySupport implements PersonClient {


    public void addPerson(Person person) {
        ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
        JAXBElement<Person> request = new ObjectFactory().createAddPerson(person);
        getWebServiceTemplate().setDefaultUri("http://localhost:8080/services");
        getWebServiceTemplate().setMarshaller((Marshaller) ctx.getBean("marshaller"));
        getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request);
    }

 public void deletePerson(Integer id) {
        JAXBElement<Integer> request = new ObjectFactory().createDeletePerson(id);
        getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request);
    }

    public List<Person> getAllPersons() {
        JAXBElement<PersonArray> request = new ObjectFactory().createGetAllPersonsResponse(new ObjectFactory().createPersonArray());
        Object response = getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request);
        return (List<Person>) response;
    }

    public Person getPerson(Integer id) {
        JAXBElement<Integer> request = new ObjectFactory().createGetPerson(id);
        return (Person) getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request);

    }

    public void updatePerson(Person person) {
        JAXBElement<Person> request = new ObjectFactory().createUpdatePerson(person);

        getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request);
    }
}

my applicationContext.xml file looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="client"/> <context:annotation-config/> <bean id="messageFactory" class="org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory"/> <bean name="webserviceTemplate" class="org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate"> <property name="defaultUri" value="http://localhost:8080/services"/> <property name="marshaller" ref="marshaller"/> <property name="unmarshaller" ref="marshaller"/> </bean> <!--<oxm:jaxb2-marshaller id="marshaller" contextPath="client"/>--> <!--<oxm:jaxb2-marshaller id="unmarshaller" contextPath="client"/>--> <bean id="marshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller"> <property name="classesToBeBound"> <list> <value>example.Person</value> <value>example.PersonArray</value> </list> </property> </bean> </beans>

i written also a main class to test:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
    PersonClient client = (PersonClient) ctx.getBean("personClientImpl");
    Person person = null;

    // Add person
    try {
      person = createPerson(91, "Lex", "Luthor");
      System.out.println("Add this person " + makeString(person));
      client.addPerson(person);
    } catch (SoapFaultClientException se) {
      System.out.println("\t" + se.getMessage());
    }

    // Get person
    try {
      int id = 1;
      System.out.println("Get person with id=" + id + "...");
      person = client.getPerson(id);
      System.out.println("\tPerson Response " + makeString(person));
    } catch (SoapFaultClientException se) {
      System.out.println("\t" + se.getMessage());
    }

    // Update the person
    try {
      System.out.println("Update person's first name");
      person.setFirstName("El tury");
      client.updatePerson(person);
      System.out.println("\tsucessfully invoked update.");
    } catch (SoapFaultClientException se) {
      System.out.println("\t" + se.getMessage());
    }

    // Delete person
    try {
      int id = 9999;
      System.out.println("Delete person with id=" + id);
      client.deletePerson(id);
    } catch (SoapFaultClientException se) {
      System.out.println("\t" + se.getMessage());
    }

  }

  private static Person createPerson(int id, String firstName, String lastName) {
    Person person = new Person();
    person.setId(id);
    person.setFirstName(firstName);
    person.setLastName(lastName);
    return person;
  }

  private static String makeString(Person p) {
    return "[id=" + p.getId() + ", firstName=" + p.getFirstName() + ", lastName="
        + p.getLastName() + "]";
  }

The problem is that when i run the main class an error occures. i hate this error. a couple of hours have passed and i still don't know how to solve it

the stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.ws.client.WebServiceTransportException: Not Found [404]
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.handleError(WebServiceTemplate.java:622)
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.doSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:546)
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.sendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:496)
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:343)
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:337)
	at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:329)
	at client.PersonClientImpl.addPerson(PersonClientImpl.java:24)
	at client.Main.main(Main.java:27)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:110)

[Turian Vlad]

Also when the add method fires the following soap is transmitted through the wire

[<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <SOAP-ENV:Header/> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns3:addPerson xmlns:ns3="http://example/" xmlns=""> <firstName>Lex</firstName> <id>91</id> <lastName>Luthor</lastName> </ns3:addPerson> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>]

it appears to me that the soap message is well formed. is the xmlns="" a problem?

Thank you for your answers

Vlad