I have a project where we have developed the webservices using grails.
Here we have given the mapping in URLMappings.groovy and have controller and Services defined along with domain clasess.
When we get a request we generate an xml or json response based on the request.
Here we have not used any wsdl file.
Can anyone explain how this works in background and why we don't need a wsdl here?
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We have deployed our webservice in liberty server.Earlier it was on IBM WAS. After deploying in liberty, we came to know that Webservices is running on CXF webservice framework. In WAS, it was Axis framework.
Another difference is that , changes happened in wsdl url & content. The old wsdl url is http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices.wsdl and it contains xsd schema definition.
In the liberty server above wsdl url is not working and throwing file not found. But if we try to invoke http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices?wsdl it's working.
Could anyone tell why old url is not working in New server. Is it due to server or inbuilt cxf framework in server.
Another team is using wsdl url to consume this webservice, with this new url they are not able to achieve it.
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated..
Thanks in Advance
The main reason for this is the change in the JAX-WS implementations used by the different WebSphere profiles. CXF, unfortunately, hard codes the WSDL url to append ?wsdl in several locations and so this is something that is not possible to change in configuration. The easiest solution would to add a ServletFilter to check the incoming request url for http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices.wsdl and then redirect the request to http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices?wsdl.
There's a good SO post that shows how to write a ServletFilter to redirect here:
How to use a servlet filter in Java to change an incoming servlet request url?
The other option would be to have the client side update either their code or configuration to account for the change to the WSDL URL.
I am using a wsdl file sent to me via email to generate a WS client application but I wonder if it is better to have the WSDL hosted on a server and to use an URL to request it.
Actually, I requested the URL but apparently this WSDL don't have one and I can ask to create an Url for the wsdl if it is really necessary.
Can you tell me please what are the benefits of using the WSDL Url to create a WS client ?
There is not difference for you how to generate WS client. In both cases this is just WSDL document, no matter where it located is.
I see only one benefit direct accessible WSDL against WSDL file - WSDL will be always actual and and all web service changes will be reflected to WSDL document.
If you using axis 2, you can try call your webservice with ?wsdl suffix to get WSDL document
if this your webservice url
http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/StockQuoteService
This is wsdl location
http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/StockQuoteService?wsdl
I am new to Spring web services. I am going to create an xml request, and send it as a SOAP request to a web service and receive the response.I read different documents but still confused as I could not find a working sample yet.
I know that I should use WebServiceTemplate and WebServiceMessageSender, SaajSoapmessageFactory (please let me know if I am wrong) but not sure how to use them.
Do I need WSDL? if yes why?
If you have any sample code please send me to get clear on it.
Thanks
If you want to send SOAP requests, you would like to be a SOAP client. Seems like you want to use spring-ws project. Check out their great documentation on the client side. The same documentation will guide you through the process of creating a server. There are plenty of examples and ready-made configuration snippets waiting for you.
Spring-WS is built on top of XML Schema description of your message, so you will need WSDL to generate e.g. JAXB models of your requests and responses.
AFAIK, for "web services" , the WSDL file is the machine blueprint of the "ports" as they are called However! ports in WSDL "means" java language(or any other programming language used with a routine or sub or procedure or function) method and has a specific naming scheme associate the .wsdl xml file(template of the service). Each WSDL port(language method) has specifications of return value and data specifications for how to feed it arguments and their type values.
I am using RAD 7.5 to generate WSDL from java service class using JAX-WS. My Server is WAS 7.0. I am not able to see any option in RAD to exclude the XSD generation and include the request & response type object details in WSDL itself.
Is this possible to create a WSDL file which will also hold the request & response object detail using JAX-WS? I dont want to have XSD file.
I am new to Web Service, please let me know if I am thinking something rubbish :)
Following reference indicates ASP.NET automatically creates a WSDL and SOAP request. Where or through what I can see the nuts and bolts?
http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/ws_example.asp
ASP.net generates the WSDL according to the method(WebMethod) signature along with other web service specific attributes.
For example, the method name is web service operation, serialized parameter of the method is part of SOAP request and serialized return object of the method is part of SOAP response.
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Your reference is out of date. You should not use ASMX web services for new web service development. Microsoft now considers them to be "legacy technology". You should use WCF for all new web service development.