JBossWS and xdoclet with ejb

[mmarcom]

hi all,
i am trying to expose an EJB via webserviecs using XDoclet....
i have checked plenty of docs on the wbe on how to do that... and basically i end up with 2 different way of doing that:
- one where , using xdoclet, we generate proper ejb-jar.xml,then wsdl file, mapping.xml and webservices.xml
- another where xdoclet is not used at all, but it uses jbossws annotations..

i am tyring to move my EJBs/webservices from WAS to JBoss, could anyone tell me which of the two approaches shall i follow? i am finding more docs on the first option, but there are not much examples left out
could anyone help me out?
thanks in advance and regards
marco

[thomas.diesler]

Why not use annotations (JSR181), xdoclet is dead for webservices.

http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossws/user-guide/en/html/endpoints.html#jsr181-ejb3-endpoint

[mmarcom]

Hello Thomas,
thanks for your reply.. Unfortunately, i am trying to port an existing app (done with j2ee 1.3, currently deploying on websphere) to jboss..

THE problem i have is that i have more than 1 webservice in the same application, and putting them in the same wsdl-config results in one ws overriding the other in webservices.xml ...
i m using xdoclet just to build ejb classes and endpoint interfaces, i had to fight a little to find out how to generate webservices.xml etc.
foudn this jira about my problem

JBWS-1090

it will actually solve my problem... JIRA is marked as resolved, so will it be enough if i get the latest jboss app server from svn?

thanks and regards
marco

[mmarcom]

Hello,
i have just downloaded jbossws-1.0.3GA, and installed jars properly in my jboss directories

i am currently using Maven2, to build my application, here' sthe ant task that i have defined

<tasks>
 <taskdef name="wstools" classname="org.jboss.ws.tools.ant.wstools">
 <classpath refid="maven.dependency.classpath"/>
 <classpath>
 <fileset dir="${jboss.libdir}\client">
 <include name="activation.jar"/>
 <include name="javassist.jar"/>
 <include name="jbossall-client.jar"/>
 <include name="jbossretro-rt.jar"/>
 <include name="jboss-backport-concurrent.jar"/>
 <include name="jbossws-client.jar"/>
 <include name="jboss-xml-binding.jar"/>
 <include name="jbossws14-client.jar"/>
 <include name="log4j.jar"/>
 <include name="mail.jar"/>
 </fileset>
 <fileset dir="${jboss.libdir}\lib\endorsed">
 <include name="*.jar"/>
 </fileset>
 </classpath>
 </taskdef>
 <echo message="********** Running jboss ws **************"/>
 <mkdir dir="dd/ws" />
 <wstools dest="D:/Sw/step-by-step/middleware/dd/ws"
 config="D:/Sw/step-by-step/middleware/boss/wstools-messenger-config.xml"/>

 <wstools dest="D:/Sw/step-by-step/middleware/dd/ws"
 config="D:/Sw/step-by-step/middleware/jboss/wstools-translation-config.xml"/>

 </tasks>

here's my config files

<configuration xmlns="http://www.jboss.org/jbossws-tools">
 <java-wsdl>
 <service name="TranslationService" style="rpc" endpoint="webservices.TranslationService"/>
 <namespaces target-namespace="http://mw.com/translationservice"
 type-namespace="http://mw.com/translationservice/types"/>
 <mapping file="tss-mapping.xml"/>
 <webservices ejb-link="TranslationServiceSessionBean" override="false"/>
 </java-wsdl>

<configuration xmlns="http://www.jboss.org/jbossws-tools">

 <java-wsdl>
 <service name="MessengerService" style="rpc" endpoint="webservices.MessengerService"/>
 <namespaces target-namespace="http://mw.com/messengerservice"
 type-namespace="http://mw.com/messengerservice/types"/>
 <mapping file="mss-mapping.xml"/>
 <webservices ejb-link="ResponderBean" override="false"/>
 </java-wsdl>
</configuration>

but the webservice that gets generated shows only the last service (the translation service)

am i missingn something? am i using wrong jar files in the classpath?

can anyone help me out?

thanks and regards
marco

[aguizar]

Hi Marco,

Use:

<webservices ejb-link="ResponderBean" append="true"/>

instead of:

<webservices ejb-link="ResponderBean" override="false"/>

[mmarcom]

THanx alex, it worked just fine!!

regards
marco