How do I deploy a SOAP Webservice (ServiceManagerClient rpcr

[thoste]

From a couple of tutorials I learned that I can deploy a web service by executing the following command for a tomcat/apache installation:

D:\work\jb>java org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient http://localhost:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter deploy HelloDD2.xml

But this command fails for a JBoss server:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/soap/server/ServiceManagerClient

The jar with the webservices Hello is already placed in the deploy directory. So it must be a jar archive which I did not add to the CLASSPATH. In which jar archive do I find the

org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient ?

Maybe the name of this ServiceManagerClient changed after the
inclusion of TomCat resp. WebService feature into JBoss.

Possibly this command is replaced by another.

Thomas

[thomas.diesler]

Please read http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossWS wiki to learn hoe to package and deploy J2EE compatiple web services.

What you are refering to is an Axis propriatary deployment process, which cannot be used with ws4ee.

[empress101]

and were on that page with all the links listed that not one says how to deploy does it walk you thru deploy an axis service on jboss?

[thomas.diesler]

because JBossWS is about portable J2EE compliant web services. Axis does not enter the gaim.

[empress101]

so what your saying is that jboss does not support axis-soap?

what i need to know is if i have a simple hello world service...were exaclty do i place the file in the jboss directory for it to be deployed.

for tomcat all i have to do is change the extesion to jws and drop it into the tomcat/webapps/axis directory. How do i do this for jboss?

just need a simple answer?(beside pointing me to some link which dont help because they take 200 pages of bable to just get to he point).

[anil.saldhana]

It is easier to use Standalone tomcat if you are trying to build axis based web services.

In JBoss, we are focusing towards building J2EE standards based webservices.

What you described about changing the extension to .jws and dropping the webapp in tomcat, is how axis does it work, in a proprietory fashion.

I suggest you try to learn the J2EE way of doing webservices. There is a tutorial from Sun and also various books available. Plus the Jboss Getting Started documentation will have some information.

If you want to stay with axis based webservices, then you can use standalone tomcat.

[empress101]

believe me I would use tomcat if choice , but i have been assigned and must use jboss for this project i am trying to get off the ground. I figured Jboss could do it because there are many sources on the web that allued to it. One in particular guide that many point to is

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~bscharla/teaching/mtp_software/jboss/jboss-ws4ee-HelloWorld.shtml

,but this guide is too complicated and you can see the directory structure is too involved to just get a basic understanding of were stuff goes. I and a few others have complained that this example as well as the duke's bank example is overwhelming because you are left struggling with the example itself instead of the workings of the ws4ee-axis-soap thing. This why we have asked for a simple hello world example to show us exaclty were the files get put and what gets typed at prompt to make it work.

I basically need to have a jsp or swing make a soap call to jboss then jboss to soapservlet and then to database and makes trip back.

[jason.greene]

With J2EE web services there is no "command" to deploy web services. You build your package with the appropriate descriptors, which is what the tutorials are showing you how to make. Then, when you deploy your war or jar, the web service is deployed. Reread the wiki, it is quite clear about how you do this.

If you still want to use the proprietary axis implementation, either remove ws4ee and install jboss.net, or remove ws4ee and install axis under jboss. The instructions on how to do the former are here: http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss.NET

Also, Here are instructions for deploying under Jboss.NET:
http://www.jboss.org/developers/guides/jboss.net/deployment

-Jason

[empress101]

ok i looked at that page and the instruction http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss.NET

and they are not clear

HOWTO switch between JBossWS/JBoss.NET

Before you can use JBoss.NET you need to remove JBossWS and install JBoss.NET manually. Here is what you need to do from the jboss.net module dir

<!-- delete jboss-ws4ee implementation -->



<!-- install jboss-net implementation -->





If you work from the source, there are 'deploy' targets in the jboss.net/webservice module respectively.

The binaries for JBoss.Net are distributed under ${jboss.home}/docs/examples/jboss.net

1. first were is this directory i am suppose "to do from".. I assume its the jboss-net directory in the jboss_home/docs/examples/jboss.net ?

2. is that a build file i am to make and use ant to execute?

3. when looking for the jboss-net.sar there is no jboss-net.sar however there is a jboss-net.sar.tmp file inside the jboss-net directory?

4. when making it into a build file. It does not work.

5. when just doing it myself and (copying the jboss-net.sar.tmp to the deploy directory and changing extension to .sar it still not work.

I am using Jboss4.0.0RC2

I assusmed it is a builld file suppose to make. Because i would assume if it was clear instructions it would start out .
number 1. do this
number 2. do this
number 3. do this .....ect...