Disable auto generated JAX-WS Status Page - web-services

Question

When I deploy and run my web service developed with JAX-WS I can see a summary page with some info on it, something like in this picture:
http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/deploy-jax-ws-web-services-on-tomcat/
For the final implementation we would like to remove this page so that a custom or a blank page is returned while still having access to the web service endpoint.
We are currently running on Tomcat.

Answer 1

There is a field on the WSServlet class that might do what you are looking for: JAXWS_RI_PROPERTY_PUBLISH_STATUS_PAGE (it's value is com.sun.xml.ws.server.http.publishStatusPage).
Looking at the source code from a JAX-WS download it seems that you need to set it as a context parameter in your web.xml file:
<web-app>
<context-param>
<param-name>com.sun.xml.ws.server.http.publishStatusPage</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
...
Seems that HttpAdapter had something similar on it but was taken from an environment variable:
setPublishStatus(
System.getProperty(HttpAdapter.class.getName() + ".publishStatusPage")
.equals("true"));
The code on HttpAdapter is marked deprecated in the javadoc so the context parameter seems the way to go.

Answer 2

I have been trying to solve this for two days, Glassfish 3.1.2.
The only solution was to have
-Dcom.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.publishStatusPage=false
I know its old, but wantd to maintain the knowledge. Hope this helps any one with this issue.

Answer 3

I have completed the same task for WebLogic recently.
It was requested to hide/show a status page of a public web service depending on a target environment i.e. hide for production, show for dev.
Nothing of the previous answers worked for me.
The success solution is based on implementation of javax.servlet.Filter.
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebFilter;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.ws.rs.HttpMethod;
#WebFilter(urlPatterns = { "/WeblogicWebService" })
public class FilterStatusSoapPage implements Filter {
#Value("${soap.status.page.disabled}")
private boolean flagDisablePublishStatusPage;
public void doFilter(
ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
try {
HttpServletRequest httpReq = (HttpServletRequest) request;
HttpServletResponse httpRes = (HttpServletResponse) response;
String queryString = httpReq.getQueryString();
if(flagDisablePublishStatusPage)
if(queryString == null || queryString.trim().isEmpty())
if(HttpMethod.GET.matches(httpReq.getMethod())) {
httpRes.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
httpRes.getWriter().write("Access to status page of Web
Service is not allowed");
httpRes.getWriter().flush();
httpRes.getWriter().close();
return;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Error on FilterStatusSoapPage filter");
chain.doFilter(request, response);
return;
}
chain.doFilter(request, response);
}
public void init(FilterConfig fConfig) throws ServletException {}
public void destroy() {}
}