Question

I’ve a Spring-based web application and I need to expose a webservice using Axis. I followed this guide but service still doesn’t work properly. To resume, I have an EndPoint class like this:

package service;

import org.springframework.remoting.jaxrpc.ServletEndpointSupport;

public class SpringWSEndPoint extends ServletEndpointSupport implements ISpringWS {
private ISpringWS springWS;

protected void onInit() {
 this.springWS = (ISpringWS) getWebApplicationContext().getBean("springWS");
}

public String sayHello(String message) {
 return springWS.sayHello(message);
}
}

and servlet mapped like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>WSSpring</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<listener>
 <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>axis</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>axis</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/axis/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Thus, once I navigate http://localhost:8080/myProject/axis/SpringWSEndPoint?wsdl it comes out with a (seems properly) auto-generated wsdl, as expected.

But if I go to http://localhost:8080/myProject/axis/SpringWSEndPoint/sayHello it doesn’t recognize it as a service method (“No service is available at this URL”)

I wonder I have to manually compile the webservice in any .war or .aar file in someway…

Thanks

(I’m running it in tomcat)

Answer 1

The service will accept POST requests to http://localhost:8080/myProject/axis/SpringWSEndPoint, but not GET requests to http://localhost:8080/myProject/axis/SpringWSEndPoint/sayHello. Axis 1.x doesn’t support this request style. However, it supports something like this (for testing purposes): http://localhost:8080/myProject/axis/SpringWSEndPoint?method=sayHello&message=test.