[Roel De Nijs]

I followed the example (bottom-up scenario) described in the “New And Noteworthy”-section. I changed in both generated files the method-name.
I deployed it to Tomcat 5 and started the web services explorer. I entered the url to WSDL and clicked on go. I was amazed to see it working 🙂

Then i saved the wsdl-file to my local drive and started a top-down scenario, which generated some classes. Then i tried to make a TestService-class

public class TestService {
    /**
     * @param    args de command-line argumenten
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        if (args.length != 1) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Juist 1 argument meegeven aub!");
        }
        HalloServiceClient service = new HalloServiceClient();                 
        System.out.println(service.getHalloServiceHttpPort().zegHallo(args[0]));    
   }   
}

and tried to run it. but it gave me some error (something like endpoint doesn’t exist).

so i tried again and again and now when i start my tomcat, i got following error

2006-07-11 14:50:09,902 - Installing web application at context path /WS01ME from URL file:C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat AG4W\webapps\WS01ME
2006-07-11 14:50:10,762 - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [org/codehaus/xfire/spring/xfire.xml]
2006-07-11 14:50:11,141 - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [org/codehaus/xfire/spring/customEditors.xml]
2006-07-11 14:50:11,191 - JDK 1.4+ collections available
2006-07-11 14:50:11,221 - Commons Collections 3.x available
2006-07-11 14:50:12,020 - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [META-INF/xfire/services.xml]
2006-07-11 14:50:12,030 - Error initializing XFireServlet.
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [META-INF/xfire/services.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [META-INF/xfire/services.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [META-INF/xfire/services.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:137)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:167)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
    at org.codehaus.xfire.spring.XFireConfigLoader.getXFireApplicationContext(XFireConfigLoader.java:99)
    at org.codehaus.xfire.spring.XFireConfigLoader.loadContext(XFireConfigLoader.java:39)
    at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireConfigurableServlet.loadConfig(XFireConfigurableServlet.java:75)
    at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireConfigurableServlet.createXFire(XFireConfigurableServlet.java:51)
    at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireServlet.init(XFireServlet.java:45)
    at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1029)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:862)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4013)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4357)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:277)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:701)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:432)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)

how do i solve this one? (i already tried redploying but with no success)

[Roel De Nijs]

i deleted the project (without deleting the contents) and created it back, and now everything works fine

i’m happy with my first succesful web service 🙂

but could you tell me what steps i have to follow to create webservice + ability to test it (via own code, not the web services explorer).
i did the following:
– create a webservice with the bottom-up scenario and deployed it
– started my application server (tomcat 5)
– opened the web services explorer and typed in the link to wsdl
– then tested it out and select the first line under “WSDL Main”
– then i clicked on “import wsdl to file system” and saved it on disk
– then created a new webservice with the top-down scenario and selected the wsdl-file. everything was generated and i’m able to compile and run the following code:

public class TestService { 
    /** 
     * @param   args de command-line argumenten 
     */ 
    public static void main(String[] args) { 
        if (args.length != 1) { 
           throw new IllegalArgumentException("Juist 1 argument meegeven aub!"); 
        } 
        HalloServiceClient service = new HalloServiceClient();                  
        System.out.println(service.getHalloServiceHttpPort().zegHallo(args[0]));    
   }    
} 

i already found an alternative:
– instead of clicking “import wsdl to file system” i clicked on “start web services wizard” and then select “web service client” and click on go
– then make some choices and click finish
– and then i’m able to create following test-program

public class TestService {
    /**
     * @param    args de command-line argumenten
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        if (args.length != 1) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Juist 1 argument meegeven aub!");
        }
        HalloServiceLocator service = new HalloServiceLocator();                 
        System.out.println(service.getHalloServiceHttpPort().zegHallo(args[0]));    
   }   
}

so the one class calls HalloServiceClient and the other HalloServiceLocator

which of both ways is the preferred way of working? or is there another one, that’s better, easier, faster,…?

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