Where to place clientaccesspolicy.xml in Netbeans Webservice project? - web-services

Question

I develop a Webservice using Netbeans 6.9 and I use an embedded glassfish server to deploy my Webservice (http://some_domain/project_name/ws_for_sl4). On a different server there is deployed a Silverlight 4 client, which should have accesss to the Webservice.
I know that I have to have clientaccesspolicy.xml (under http://some_domain/project_name) however I do not know how to do it. I mean, I do not know in which folder of the netbeans project I need to put clientaccesspolicy.xml to have it automaticly deployed on an embedded glassfish server. To have my SL4 client using the webservice.

Answer 1

Solution:
- put clientaccesspolity.xml and crossdomain.xml under /Web Pages*
- open Project Properties (click right mouse button on a project root), go to Run, and delete a value of "Context Path".
Now your WS will be deployed directly under some_domain as it is required by SL4 (SL4 is looking for these files under the domain name.). SL4 will have no problem to access clientaccesspolity.xml and crossdomain.xml.

Answer 2

In case anyone doesn't like moving their webservice to "root", and instead prefers to have it in http://localhost:8080/aDifferentLocation/MyActualWebService, then placing those XMLs in the project Web Pages folder doesn't cut it.
http://localhost:8080/aDifferentLocation/clientaccesspolicy.xml
and
http://localhost:8080/aDifferentLocation/crossdomain.xml
would not work, as they need to be in
http://localhost:8080/clientaccesspolicy.xml
and
http://localhost:8080/crossdomain.xml
To achieve this, you must track down the folder where your GlassFish server is installed, let's call it [GlassFishInstallPATH] and paste the XMLs into the subfolder called docroot:
[GlassFishInstallPATH]/domains/domain1/docroot/ <--here go the XMLs.
(source)
In case you're wondering how you would do the same thing in Eclipse, you must track down the ROOT folder in your Eclipse J2EE workspace:
C:\Eclipse_j2ee_workspaces\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\ROOT/ <-- the XMLs go here.