First webservice
renani Apr 15, 2009 10:39 AMHi,
I'm trying to create a webservice. I followed the tutorials at http://www.javabeat.net/articles/40-creating-webservice-using-jboss-and-eclipse-europa-1.html.
The server would not run the war file created by following these steps. I've debugged all day but could not find the reason for it. What I figured out was that the WSDL file was not created. Strangely, the index.html, a static web page I've created for test would not run either.
In the book "JBoss in Action", chapter 9 I read that wsprovide is the program used to generate wsdls and it could be used manually. I attempted to do so and I think I figured out where it all fails. The message I got in Dos prompt is:
Error: Could not generate. (use --show-traces to see full traces) java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1768) at org.jboss.wsf.common.JavaUtils.getPackageName(JavaUtils.java:533) at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLUtils.getTypeNamespace(WSDLUtils.java: 700) at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.pr ocessWebService(JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.java:313) at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.bu ildWebServiceMetaData(JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.java:107) at org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderImpl.provide(JBossWSProv iderImpl.java:108) at org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderImpl.provide(JBossWSProv iderImpl.java:124) at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.cmd.WSProvide.generate(WSProvide.java:183) at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.cmd.WSProvide.main(WSProvide.java:76)
The java code I'm trying to generate wsdl for is:
import javax.jws.WebService; import javax.jws.WebMethod; @WebService public class Greeting { @WebMethod public String greetClient(String userName) { return "Greeting " + userName + "! Have a nice day..."; } }
I'm certain that there is an error, not perhaps in the code it self but maybe with my configuration of eclipse (or is it JBoss)?
Would be grateful for any help!