Deploying JAX-WS Webservice on glassfish AppServer

[Sanjay Singh]

Hi,
I am trying to deploy the JAX-WS Webservice on glassfish as given in the up & running example. I created the simple webservice with with @WebService annotation and packaged it as WAR and deployed in glassfish. I can see that it got deployed successfully but when I try to access the wsdl url, as mentioned in the book, it doesn't come up. It gives resource not found error. The example code:

@WebService
public class Teams {

	private TeamUtility teamUtility;
	public Teams(){
		teamUtility = new TeamUtility();
		teamUtility.makeTestTeams();
	}
    @WebMethod
	public Team getTeam(@WebParam(name="teamName") String name){
		return teamUtility.getTeam(name);
	}
    @WebMethod
	public List<Team> getTeams(){
		return teamUtility.getTeams();
	}
}

If I add web.xml and sun-jaxws.xml with the WAR and configure it as following then I am able to access the wsdl:
web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	<display-name>Web Service Application</display-name>
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>jaxws</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>jaxws</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	<listener>
		<listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
</web-app>

sun-jaxws.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<endpoints xmlns='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime'
	version='2.0'>
	<endpoint name='TeamsServiceWS' implementation='com.jaxws.team.Teams'
		url-pattern='/team' />
</endpoints>

Now I can access the wsdl using: http://localhost:8080/webservice2/team?wsdl. As per the book the Metro, bundled with glassfish, will automatically generate all the dependent class files, which we generate using wsgen, and also webservice.xml & sun-jaxws.xml which doesn't seems to be happening. Do I need to do some customization to make it happen automatically with providing my own custom web.xml & sun-jaxws.xml?

[Frits Walraven]

What is the context root of you web-application?

Regards,
Frits

[Sanjay Singh]

Hi Frist,
The context root of my web-app is "webservice2" (have deployed as webservice2.war in glassfish). When I try to access the WSDL for Teams service (as mentioned in below code) with URL http://localhost:8080/webservice2/TeamsService?wsdl, it doesn't come up and gives 404 error.

[Frits Walraven]

The context root of my web-app is "webservice2"

Did you check your console? It should have a message like:

INFO: WEB0671: Loading application [webservice2] at [/webservice2]

If you see that message, then the URL of the wsdl should be:
http://localhost:8080/webservice2/team?wsdl

Regards,
Frits

[Sanjay Singh]

Hi Frist,
I checked the console and I can see the message as you mentioned:

[2013-10-14T19:36:07.904+0530] [glassfish 4.0] [INFO] [AS-WEB-GLUE-00172] [javax.enterprise.web] [tid: _ThreadID=82 _ThreadName=AutoDeployer] [timeMillis: 1381759567904] [levelValue: 800] [[ Loading application [webservice2] at [/webservice2]]]

But as I had mentioned in my previous msg that I can access the wsdl with url http://localhost:8080/webservice2/team?wsdl only when I have web.xml & sun-jaxws.xml configured. But let's say I only bundle the Teams class in a WAR and deploy then will glassfish will be able to deploy it as a webservice automatically as mentioned in the Java Webservice Up & Running book. The book says we can access with URL: http://localhost:8080/webservice2/TeamsService?wsdl which I am not able to access it after deploying without any deployment files.

[Frits Walraven]

Ok, now you should look at your console again and look for the line like this:

INFO: WS00018: Webservice Endpoint deployed
Teams listening at address at http://localhost:8080/TeamServerWeb/TeamsService

When you have located it, you can add ?wsdl to it http://localhost:8080/TeamServerWeb/TeamsService?wsdl and you will be fine.

Note that my dynamic web project is called TeamServerWeb that is why the context-root is different from yours.

Regards,
Frits

[Sanjay Singh]

Hi Frits,
Today again I deployed the war and it worked. I can see the wsdl & tester URL for the deployed war. Not sure what was the problem with earlier deployment as I haven't done any code or config changes.
Thanks for your help and prompt reply.
Note: I am using the glassfish 4.0.

Regards,
Sanjay