Acessing webservice with browser

[alxs]

Hi!

I'm switching from Axis webservices to JBossWS.

When I understand it right JBossWS uses Axis as a base for its webservices.

Is there a way to use an URL-Style call to services or endpoints like known from Axis (http://my.server.com/foo/services/BarService?method=fooBar...)? I really like this for a quick check.

Thanks,
Alex

[thomas.diesler]

No, this is not supported. How can a simple GET send a valid SOAP envelope to an endpoint?

[alxs]

Since axis offers this service it seems to be possible. I think that the GET request is somehow internally converted or mapped to the corresponding call to the service implelementation.

However I have to learn to live without this.

Alex

[thomas.diesler]

There must be a number of restrictions for this to work. i.e. it can only work for simple rpc/literal, document/literal endpoints that have a primitive parameter list. What is the use case for the GET request?

With jbossws we have a managed operation where you can paste a valid SOAP envelope in the browser.

[alxs]

Of corse there are a number of restrictions. I personaly used it to do a short test after deploying so I didn't need to for a separate client.

How do I access the managed operation you mentioned? Is it accessible using the JMX-Console? Pasting a SOAP envelope somewhere looks like a good alternative.

Alex

[thomas.diesler]

This is only available with jbossws in jboss-head

jboss.ws:service=ServiceEndpointManager
operation: processSOAPRequest

jbossws-1.0 will however be backported to jboss-4.0.x