Question

I’ve a simple jax-ws web service that on localhost works fine with the clients, but now I want to publish the web service on a public ip, so the clients can interact with it through wan network instead lan network.
I signed to no-ip dns service provider and defined my host like “myname.no-ip.info”.

In my code i start the service in this way:

Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8080/baseStationProvider", new BaseStationProvider());

and the browser at http://myname.no-ip.info:8080/baseStationProvider@wsdl doesn’t show the wsdl.

If i start the service in this way:

Endpoint.publish("http://myname.no-ip.info/baseStationProvider", new BaseStationProvider());

compiling the code, it raise this exception:
Server Runtime Error: java.net.SocketException: Unresolved address

Any idea to problem and/or how to do what i need?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

This seems likely to do with routing and firewalls as opposed to web service publication etc. Ignoring the web-service aspect, can you even reach your server when you use this in your browser:

http://myname.no-ip.info:8080/

?

Which should look the same as

http://localhost:8080/

If not, then it is probably DNS/Routing/Firewalls that you need to check. Diagnostics that will help there are:
1) can the machine you are testing on resolve the DNS name mynam.no-ip.info? nslookup, ping, traceroute/tracert
2) is there a firewall blocking port 8080 from reaching local host? If the route from the internet to your host hits a firewall (which it will) that firewall will have to forward the request.

Good luck.