Comments on: Basic Spring Web services with XFire and JSR 181

By: laszlo.fogas

laszlo.fogas — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:25:58 +0000

Hi,

can we do the same functionality with java 1.5?

because “import javax.jws.WebService; ” seems to be java 1.6.

By: des09

des09 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:48:09 +0000

changes needed to support spring 2.0-m5:
change dispatch-servlet.xml :
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping

add spring-webmvc.jar

By: Matt Dowell

Matt Dowell — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:56:51 +0000

When I click on my [wsdl] link, I get this error:

org.jdom.IllegalNameException: The name “null” is not legal for JDOM/XML DocTypes: XML names cannot be null or empty.
at org.jdom.DocType.setElementName(DocType.java:171)

Anyone have any ideas?

By: Matt Dowell

Matt Dowell — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:22:09 +0000

Found out the answer, it was a bug in Resin. Downloading the latest version fixed the problem.

By: vikas

vikas — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:22:49 +0000

i m getting this error
any idea?
org.codehaus.xfire.XFireRuntimeException: Could not invoke service.. Nested exception is org.codehaus.xfire.fault.XFireFault: ParseError at [row,col]:[9,8]
Message: end tag name ‘body’ must match start tag name ‘hr’
org.codehaus.xfire.fault.XFireFault: ParseError at [row,col]:[9,8]
Message: end tag name ‘body’ must match start tag name ‘hr’

By: Matt P

Matt P — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:55:02 +0000

My service returns Abstract classes and interfaces. How do I indicate to Xfire, through Spring, that these subclasses/implementations need to be in the WSDL?

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:32:01 +0000

Just a reply to vikas’ problem.

I think those errors may have arisen if you tried to implement just those 5 files alone in a web project, as I was getting the same when I tried it.

I would suggest using skeleton2-1.zip file and start from there instead, the only pain is that you have to get all the required jars, but you have that problem nonetheless.

If you cant see the link for the skeleton2-1.zip file, just search for it on the page.

By: Minimizr » Blog Archive » Minimal Web Services with XFire, Spring and PHP

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:27:29 +0000

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By: Confluence: SpringSide Wiki

Confluence: SpringSide Wiki — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:16:11 +0000

XFireGuide2…

XFire????(?) 1. JSR181 JSR181???annotated POJO ?????????Web????BEA????JavaEE5??????? XFire???????? 1.1 ???? Spring, Hibernate and XFire…

By: Mittal

Mittal — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:17:49 +0000

Service serviceModel = new AnnotationServiceFactory()
.create(AuthorServiceImpl.class);

Does client code require classes from web service ?

By: olonga

olonga — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:20:34 +0000

I was able to run your example in a webapp (with tomcat) with a context in tomcat such as this: http://localhost:8080/skeleton, however, when I created a virtual host for it such as: http://ske.acme.com/, I was not able to run the example….

By: olonga

olonga — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:40:59 +0000

It turns out I was trying to test it with secure http, i.e. https://ske.acme.com/, so when I tried something like this: http://ske.acme.com:8080/services/AuthorService?wsdl
it worked.
Now, I would like to know what does it take to run the web services in https?

By: Tremend Tech Blog » My experience with web services with Spring, Axis, XFire

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:41:26 +0000

[…] XFire is indeed very easy to configure (if you follow a complete example, like this one that I found later), but lacks many “advanced” SOAP features. […]

By: jaanabrockmannpasishemeikka.org Blog » Glassfish and Appfuse skeleton web application projects….:)

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:00:49 +0000

[…] the web services created by XFire module integrated into the Spring container. The article provided MemeStorm blog highlights the Spring integration with XFire more in detail. One handy tool in testing Web Services […]

By: supriya

supriya — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:34:39 +0000

Hi,

I tried to running an example based on your article examples. The wsdl is created and the test runs fine. But I am struggling with seeing meaningful method parameters and return types in the wsdl inspite of using the annotations as specified in your example. Tried document/literal and rpc/literal style/use pair settings but in vain.
I am using spring 2.3.0, xfire 1.2.5, weblogic 9.2.

Any help is highly appreciated.

By: John Hunsley

John Hunsley — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:56:15 +0000

Hi,

using Spring-2.0, xfire-all-1.0-M5, jsr181-1.0

I get an error when i try and view the services

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: No ContextLoaderListener registered?………….

I’ve tried both ContextLoaderListener and contextConfigLocation defining my xfire-servlet.xml as a param-value, but I get the same error. The XFireSpringServlet.init isn’t getting a handle on my Spring file. What am I missing?

By: John Hunsley

John Hunsley — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:42:39 +0000

Me again,

The problem is something to do with the xfire-servlet.xml. The contextLoaderListener wont come up because there is a problem with the xfire beans, defined in that Spring config file. Ive gone through eaqch bean and they are all in the class path of the web app, so there is a conflict somewhere. I am using maven to build, not the ant build script described here.

By: John Hunsley

John Hunsley — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:40:24 +0000

Right! sovled the problem!

My ContextLoadListener wasnt coming up because one of the init methods of one of the beans in the xfire.xml Spring config within the xfire-all jar wasn’t working because maven had not downloaded a runtime dependancy!

I’m not sure which one, I just canned all the jars I found in my download version 1.2.6 from the xfire site into the lib dir of my web app and it worked!

I think I was referencing xfire-all-1.0M6 or something, there seems to be a lots of versions of xFire floating around in lots of mvn repos. I can’t 1.2.6 so I’ll have to install it manually.

Hope this is help to anyone else trying with mvn.

lol

John

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:04:30 +0000

Hi,

I was wondering whether there is a way to expose in the wsdl the javadoc of a method using jsr181.

I have seen some generated wsdl files with tag within the tag, but i could not find any information about it.

Any hint?

By: Av

Av — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:27:22 +0000

One issue that I hit after following the steps described on this website was this- I set up the service and then tried to go to http://localhost:8080/mycontext/services/TestService where TestService was my test service. I constantly got back a “Invalid SOAP Request” response. Same thing when I tried using a tool- freeware tool called soapui (try soapui.org). Then, after a bit of research it turned out that I had to use http://localhost:8080/mycontext/services/TestService?wsdl. With that Internet Explorer displayed the wsdl. The tool soapui allowed me to invoke and test out the service (without having to write the client).

Hope this helps someone.

By: tech

tech — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:07:24 +0000

Thanks Av!

By: Tew Reonal

Tew Reonal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:16:16 +0000

I came up with Apache CXF while looking for ways to integrate XFire with my Spring app.

http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/writing-a-service-with-spring.html

By: Dexterz

Dexterz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:21:17 +0000

I am getting the following error when trying to use this example…
Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath:org/codehaus/xfire/spring/xfire.xml]
Any idea what i might be missing..?