Creating Web Services using CXF (Contract first Approach) Part 2 : WSDL Creation.

What is WSDL and what its Structure? A WSDL document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, the abstract definition of endpoints and messages is separated from their concrete network deployment or data format bindings. This allows the reuse of abstract definitions: messages, which are abstract descriptions of the data beingContinue reading “Creating Web Services using CXF (Contract first Approach) Part 2 : WSDL Creation.”

Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 4): Testing

To test this we can follow the same client program which is given in the CXF site. Just create a simple Java class and execute it. 1: package com.your.company.service.client; 2: 3: import java.util.List; 4: 5: import org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor; 6: import org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor; 7: import org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean; 8: 9: import com.your.company.service.Product; 10: import com.your.company.service.ProductService; 11: 12: public final classContinue reading “Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 4): Testing”

Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 3): Configurations

Web.xml Declarations We have to declare Spring Context Listener, CXF Servlet, Spring Context Location and URL Mapping. 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2: <web-app id="services" version="2.5" 3: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee&quot; 4: xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd&quot; 5: xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 6: http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"&gt; 7: 8: <!– Adding the Spring Context Listener. It will help to init Spring Context –> 9: <listener> 10: <listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListenerContinue reading “Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 3): Configurations”

Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 2): Development

We need to set-up the project  environment first. Please download the following JARs. Versions Used : CXF 2.2.2           Download Link : CXF Site Download Link Spring 2.5.6       Download Link : SpringSource Download site The following jars are required for all CXF usage: But you will be getting it through CXF Download. – cxf.jar – commons-logging.jar –Continue reading “Creating Web services using Apache CXF (Part 2): Development”