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JSR-181 Web Service Client [message #213558] Fri, 09 May 2008 19:42
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Originally posted by: ben.sisson.ccci.org

In my Eclipse client I generated the web service stubs and proxy by
creating a new project, then right clicking on the project selecting
new->other->web service->web service client. When setting up the client I
pointed it to my web service WSDL file
ex:(http://localhost:8280/PSDynamicWebProject/TestWs?wsdl). I then just
setup a simple test class to call the web service (code below):

package service.client;

import java.rmi.RemoteException;

import org.domain.PSDynamicWebProject.pojo.TestWs;
import org.domain.PSDynamicWebProject.pojo.TestWsProxy;

public class RunnerOld
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
TestWs tw = new TestWsProxy();
try
{
System.out.println(tw.greet("1"));
}
catch (RemoteException e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}

This code worked fine (called the web service and received the correct
response back).

Now I wanted to create the web service client using the annotations from
JSR-181. I looked a several different examples and the best that I can
conclude is that I still need to generate the stubs and proxy files so I
set them up in my project in the same way as I did above. I then create a
simple class to call my web service (code below):

package service.client;

import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef;
import org.domain.PSDynamicWebProject.pojo.TestWs;
import org.domain.PSDynamicWebProject.pojo.TestWsService;

public class Runner
{
@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation="http://127.0.0.1:8280/PSDynamicWebProject/TestWs?wsdl")
private static TestWsService service;

public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
TestWs tw = service.getTestWsPort();
System.out.println(tw.greet("1"));
}
catch (RemoteException e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
catch (ServiceException e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}

This client however failed. It got a java null pointer exception on this
statement: TestWs tw = service.getTestWsPort(); I debugged it and found
tha the service object was null.

I have several questions regarding this approach:

1) I am curious why the service object was null and I got a null pointer
exception?

2) Is this the correct way to setup and use the JSR-181? I find it
interesting that if we still must generate the stubs and prox from the
WSDL before we can use the annotations then what advantage is there to
using the annotations?

Any clarity and help would be greatly appreciated. I can see the benefit
in using JSR-181 to setup the web services from previous web services that
I setup and the advantage of the annotations. However, I don't see any
benefits in the annotations on the client if I'm doing this correctly
(which I may not be).

Here is the simple code from my web serivce for review (this works):

package org.domain.PSDynamicWebClient.pojo;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.domain.PSDynamicWebClient.entity.Employee;
import org.domain.PSDynamicWebClient.session.SelectEmployee;
import org.jboss.seam.Component;


/**
* This is a webservice class exposing a method called greet which takes a
* input parameter and greets the parameter with hello.
*
* @author dhanago
*/

/*
* @WebService indicates that this is webservice interface and the name
* indicates the webservice name.
*/
@WebService(name = "TestWs", serviceName = "TestWsService")
/*
* @SOAPBinding indicates binding information of soap messages. Here we
have
* document-literal style of webservice and the parameter style is wrapped.
*/
@SOAPBinding
(
style = SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT,
use = SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL,
parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED
)
public class TestWs
{
@WebMethod
public String greet( @WebParam(name = "emplid")
String emplid )
{
try
{

/*********************************************************** ***************
* The following example marshals an object class into an XML
string which
* is returned to the caller. The object is an entity
representing a
* row on the database.

************************************************************ **************/
// Query the database for an employee's information
SelectEmployee selectEmployee = (SelectEmployee)
Component.getInstance("selectEmployee");
selectEmployee.setId(emplid);
Employee e = selectEmployee.getInstance();

// Marshal the employee information into an xml string and
return it
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Employee.class);

Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult( new StringWriter());
marshaller.marshal(e, result);
return result.getWriter().toString();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return e.getMessage();
}
}
}
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