Connect to AXIS 1.4 Webservice through a proxy - web-services

Question

I am using AXIS 1.4 to generate the subs for my webservice. The generation works fine as it is, but I am facing a problem to connect to the webservice though a WebProxy.
I use the axistools-maven-plugin to generate my axis classes.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>axistools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<configuration>
<urls>
<url>http://mywiki/rpc/soap-axis/confluenceservice-v1?wsdl</url>
</urls>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-wsdl-sources</outputDirectory>
<packageSpace>de.allianz.wsdl.confluence</packageSpace>
<testCases>false</testCases>
<serverSide>false</serverSide>
<subPackageByFileName>false</subPackageByFileName>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add wsdl source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>axis</groupId>
<artifactId>axis</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
If I use the following properties before the connect - everything works fine, but I set the properties VM wide which is not desirable:
public void setProxyHost(String proxyHost) {
this.proxyHost = proxyHost;
if(proxyHost != null){
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", proxyHost);
AxisProperties.setProperty("http.proxyHost", proxyHost);
}
}
public void setProxyPort(int proxyPort) {
this.proxyPort = proxyPort;
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", ""+proxyPort);
AxisProperties.setProperty("http.proxyPort", ""+proxyPort);
}
Is there any way to tell axis to generate sources to connect through a proxy? (I already read about how th specify a proxy when generating the sources (to access the WSDL) but this is not what I need - I need to connect to the final webservice through a proxy)
I already tried to do the following:
private ConfluenceSoapService createConfluenceSoapService()
throws ServiceException {
ConfluenceSoapServiceServiceLocator csssl = new ConfluenceSoapServiceServiceLocator();
ConfluenceSoapService confluenceSoapService;
if (confluenceserviceAddress == null) {
confluenceSoapService = csssl.getConfluenceserviceV1();
} else {
URL endpoint;
try {
//endpoint = new URL(confluenceserviceAddress);
endpoint = new URL("http",proxyHost,proxyPort,confluenceserviceAddress);
} catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e) {
throw new javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException(e);
}
confluenceSoapService = csssl.getConfluenceserviceV1(endpoint);
}
ConfluenceserviceV1SoapBindingStub stub = (ConfluenceserviceV1SoapBindingStub) confluenceSoapService;
stub.setTimeout(timeout);
return confluenceSoapService;
}
and change the endpoint to an URL using a proxy - but this leads to the following problem at runtime (even though the proxy settings are set correctly to the URL object. If I use the URL object without the proxy, I get to errors.
java.net.MalformedURLException: For input string: "8080http:"
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:154)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
My Questions:
- Am I missing something?
- Is there a way to tell axis to generate the sources to work with a web proxy (to be accessed through a web proxy)
Thanks a lot for your help! Please let me know if you need more/other information to help.

Answer 1

Try this, in my case it works, it is not a good idea to use System.setProperty as it sets the value for VM. Using AxisProperties will set the value only for specific connection. I am using AXIS 1.4 client.
AxisProperties.getProperties().put("proxySet","true");
AxisProperties.setProperty("http.proxyHost", PROXY_HOST);
AxisProperties.setProperty("http.proxyPort", PROXY_PORT);