WSAD5.1 WebService Client failure?

[Alan Wanwierd]

Ok - So I'm new to the whole webservices game and I'm told "We need to export employee data to System 'X' - a .NET system via a webService. From what I've read and know this should be a fairly straight forward proposition...

The .NET people sent me a url to some wsdl - which all looked reasonable enough and I discovered a neat little tool in WSAD that should generate some nice java stubs so I dont have to even THINK about SOAP...

My first attempt to generate code form the wsdl failed with a "cannot resolve this" error - but after pulling the wsdl down locally and also getting local copies of any .xsd required the tooling ran and generated a bunch of classes which I was able to use to write code that woudl do what I wanted and compiled nicely...

PayrollInterface port = null;
try {
  port = new PayrollPortLocator().getPayrollPort();
  port.addEmployee(mmRecords);
} catch (Exception e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}    

Unfortunately at runtime it falls over at the first hurdle with this:

 [17/01/07 10:45:05:182 EST] 278f278f EngineConfigu W com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder  WSWS3344W: Warning: Factory com.ibm.ws.webservices.axis.ws.configuration.ServerConfigurationFactory Ignored: invoke method failed: public static EngineConfigurationFactory newFactory(Object).
[17/01/07 10:45:05:198 EST] 278f278f EngineConfigu W com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder  TRAS0014I: The following exception was logged java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)
at java.lang.NullPointerException.<init>(NullPointerException.java:60)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.collaborators.MetaDataHolder.getHolder(MetaDataHolder.java:40)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.component.WSServerImpl.getServerMetaData(WSServerImpl.java:2123)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.component.WSServerImpl.isServerWebServiceEnabled(WSServerImpl.java:441)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.axis.ws.configuration.ServerConfigurationFactory.newFactory(ServerConfigurationFactory.java:64)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory(EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:238)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.access$200(EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:101)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1.run(EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:184)
at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory(EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:170)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory(EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.java:209)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Service.initService(Service.java:319)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Service.initService(Service.java:290)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Service.<init>(Service.java:190)
at net.macromatix.www.PayrollPortLocator.<init>(PayrollPortLocator.java:11)
at au.com.qtech.cbmsweb.employee.EmployeeSynchroniser.insertNewRecords(EmployeeSynchroniser.java:495)   

Inspection of the documentation reveals that ther is a security component that isnt addressed by this java client - and i cant see how to include it. The wsdl in question looks like this - but WHERE and how do I generate appropriate classes to use this info? Is this a shortcoming of the WSAD5.1 Tooling? Or am I missing something?

 <definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:import1="http://www......net/ErrorHeaderData.xsd" xmlns:import0="http://www......net/PayrollMessages.xsd" xmlns:tns="http://www......net/Payroll" xmlns:import2="http://www......net/SecurityHeaderData.xsd" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:import3="http://www......net/EmployeeData.xsd" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" name="Payroll" targetNamespace="http://www......net/Payroll" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
  <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
  <types>
    <xsd:schema>
      <xsd:import schemaLocation="PayrollMessages.xsd" namespace="http://www.......net/PayrollMessages.xsd" />
      <xsd:import schemaLocation="ErrorHeaderData.xsd" namespace="http://www.......net/ErrorHeaderData.xsd" />
      <xsd:import schemaLocation="SecurityHeaderData.xsd" namespace="http://www........net/SecurityHeaderData.xsd" />
      <xsd:import schemaLocation="EmployeeData.xsd" namespace="http://www.........net/EmployeeData.xsd" />
    </xsd:schema>
  </types>
  <message name="addEmployeeIn">
    <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
    <part name="messagePart" element="import0:AddEmployee" />
  </message>
  <message name="addEmployeeOut">
    <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
    <part name="messagePart" element="import0:AddEmployeeResponse" />
  </message>
  <message name="addEmployeeInHeader1">
    <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
    <part name="messagePart" element="import2:userCredentials" />
  </message>
  <message name="addEmployeeOutHeader1">
    <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
    <part name="messagePart" element="import1:errorMessages" />
  </message>
...
...
<portType name="PayrollInterface">
    <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
    <operation name="AddEmployee">
      <wsdl  :mrgreen:  ocumentation xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" />
      <input message="tns:addEmployeeIn" />
      <output message="tns:addEmployeeOut" />
    </operation>
...
...
</portType>
 <binding name="Payroll" type="tns  :-P	  ayrollInterface">
    <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
    <operation name="AddEmployee">
      <soap  :-o	  peration soapAction="http://www.macromatix.net/Payroll:addEmployeeIn" style="document" />
      <input>
        <soap:body use="literal" />
        <soap:header message="tns:addEmployeeInHeader1" part="messagePart" use="literal" />
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body use="literal" />
        <soap:header message="tns:addEmployeeOutHeader1" part="messagePart" use="literal" />
      </output>
    </operation>
    ....
    ....
  </binding>
   

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

[ January 16, 2007: Message edited by: Adrian Wallace ]
[ January 16, 2007: Message edited by: Adrian Wallace ]