Spring 3 MVC + Web Services (JAX-WS) - web-services

Question

We have a Spring 3 MVC webapplication, and we are trying to expand it with Web Services.
I have now tried with JAX-WS Web-services, annotating WebService and WebMethod on the appropriate places.
I do have a dispatcher mapped in my web.xml. This is the standard spring DispatcherServlet. And its config: dispatcher-servlet.xml is working perfectly fine for the MVC stuff.
The problem comes when I try to expose the WebServices. I do this by adding the following bean to the dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<bean class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.SimpleJaxWsServiceExporter">
<property name="baseAddress" value="http://localhost:8080/service/" />
</bean>
If this bean is added. Then the WebServices works perfectly, but all the MVC stuff stops working.
So my second try was to create 2 dispatchers. One named mvc-dispatcher and one webservice-dispatcher. Each of them mapped to respectivly /mvc and /ws. And then put only the SimpleJaxWsServiceExporter in the webservice-config and only the standard MVC stuff in the other one.
But still the same problems.
I can only get the MVC to work if I disable/comment-out the web-service dispatcher.
I cant belive this is supposed to be so complicated... What am I not getting?
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
I cant find any decent tutorials doing JAX-WS and spring 3 MVC...
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm assuming by dispatcher you mean a spring dispatcher, I'd recommend against that. Just have the JAX-WS be a different servlet on it's own, i.e.
https://cxf.apache.org/docs/a-simple-jax-ws-service.html
Then if you need to allow Spring beans to be injected extend SpringBeanAutowiringSupport as in this example.
How to make an #WebService spring aware
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You can use Apache CXF that implements the JAXWS Specification has a very good integration with Spring, actually CXF use behind the scenes Spring.
In practice you could proceed in this way:
in your web.xml you have configure the cxf servlet as below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
....
<servlet>
<description>Apache CXF Endpoint</description>
<display-name>cxf</display-name>
<servlet-name>cxf</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>cxf</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/ws/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Apache CXF configuration
<?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:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
xmlns:soap="http://cxf.apache.org/bindings/soap"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws
http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs
http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/bindings/soap
http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/soap.xsd">
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
<import resource="classpath*:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-*.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml"/>
<jaxws:endpoint
id="yourService"
implementor="#yourService"
address="/yourAddres">
</jaxrs:server>
</beans>
your bean
#Service
#WebService(serviceName = "soapSvnClientService")
public class SoapSvnClientService {
#WebMethod(operationName = "service")
public void service(#WebParam String param1,
#WebParam String param2){
....
}
}
I hope that this can help you