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Service for Asynchronous Client calls (polling, callback)

 
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I am a WebService learner and digging through all this stuff isn't easy with all that maybe-outdated-but-still-usable technology floating around. Here's my thing.

My goal is to create a WebService that can be called to perform a time-consuming task. This should be done asynchronously since the client is required to continue working. On my way to achieve this I have stumbled upon JAX-WS 2.0 and it's possibility to create web services via annotation. It also allows asynchronous calls with the @oneway annotation.

Now, I to my understanding (and from several different sources on the web) it seems like I need a server working synchronously which returns a Response<?> (for a polling approach). For a callback approach it seem to be needing an AsyncHandler and sometimes a Future<?>.

Here's how that is supposed to look:



Here's the endpoint code:



I am using Java 1.6.0_26 and Eclipse Indigo with WTP. I have not actively deployed this code to any server, I am just running this Publisher class above. Everything was working fine until either Response, Future or AsyncHandler are added to the code.

Before that the WSDL was retrievable via http://localhost:8080/services?wsdl. I was able to run a client based on this code using wsimport from a *.bat like this:

wsimport -d ..\src -keep -p test http://localhost:8080/services?wsdl

Now it's giving me this exception, which means I don't even get to the point where my Publisher generates the WSDL:



From what I know this tells me JAXB isn't able to work with these interfaces because it can't translate them. But if that's the case, why do I find tutorials with this code at IBM and Apache Axis 2?


Thanks for your help.
 
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KEY: The features you're looking for is from the Client side only - Client ASYNCHRONOUS invocation.

You will be clarified by these 2 links:
http://jax-ws.java.net/nonav/2.1.4/docs/UsersGuide.html
http://jax-ws.java.net/nonav/2.1.4/docs/asynch.html

Simplified as below:

1.
http://jax-ws.java.net/nonav/2.1.4/samples/fromwsdl/etc/AddNumbers.wsdl
wsimport this wsdl and you (client) can make a SYNCHRONOUS call.

the generated service endpoint interface DO NOT have async methods.


3. if you (client) want to make a ASYNCHRONOUS call to the web service provider (polling or callback)

http://jax-ws.java.net/nonav/2.1.4/docs/asynch.html

In order to generate a service endpoint interface with asynchronous methods the following binding declaration file will be passed to wsimport





These 2 allow you (client) to invoke a web service provider ASYNCHRONOUSLY from the client only.

4. Some IDE will generate these 2 async methods or have an option during the web service client generation to create
these 2 asyn methods.
 
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Here is 1 quick test:

Server side on GlassFish 3x


Client side (eclipse ide, Apache CXF and the binding file for ide for client side artifacts generation)

 
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