Consuming .net Web Service using JBOSSWS

[vimalm]

Hi

I am trying to consume a .net webservice (document/literal) inside one of my EJB's or a stand alone client starting from a WSDL URL in the form http://someurl/someservice.asmx

The steps I took is to create the supporting classes using WSTOOLS with following configuration and then invoking the web service.

<configuration xmlns="http://www.jboss.org/jbossws-tools">
 <wsdl-java file="someservice.wsdl">
 <mapping file="jaxrpc-mapping.xml" />
 </wsdl-java>
</configuration>

I downloaded someservice.wsdl from above url?WSDL link. I read that that the URL could be refered in a jboss-client.xml file but I will do that later.

Now in my client I am trying to call the web service using:

package somewebsite;

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.File;
import org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.ServiceFactoryImpl;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.rpc.Service;
import javax.xml.rpc.Stub;

public class Test {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 Test test = new Test();
 test.call();
 }

 public void call() {
 try {
 URL wsdlURL = new URL("http://someurl/someservice.asmx?WSDL");
 ServiceFactoryImpl servFactory = new ServiceFactoryImpl();
 URL mappingURL = new File("jaxrpc-mapping.xml").toURL();
 QName qname = new QName("http://somewebsite.net", "UserManagement");
 Service service = servFactory.createService(wsdlURL, qname, mappingURL);
 UserManagementSoap port = (UserManagementSoap)service.getPort(UserManagementSoap.class); GetUserList gul = new GetUserList("notfound");
 GetUserListResponse gulr = port.getUserList(gul);
 System.out.println("finished" + gulr.getGetUserListResult());
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 }
 }

}

I get a connection time out and don't know what is wrong? I know the web service is up and running at the url because I can hit it with a .net client. I am having problem with the java client. I am using JBOSS 4.0.4GA JBOSS WS 1.0.3GA.

Here is the WSDL :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
 xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/"
 xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
 xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/"
 xmlns:tns="http://somewebsite.net/"
 xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/"
 xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
 targetNamespace="http://somewebsite.net/"
 xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
 <wsdl:types>
 <s:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://somewebsite.net/">
 <s:element name="UpdateUser">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="creatorId" type="s:string" />
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="input" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 <s:element name="UpdateUserResponse">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="UpdateUserResult" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 <s:element name="DeleteUser">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="creatorId" type="s:string" />
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="input" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 <s:element name="DeleteUserResponse">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="DeleteUserResult" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 <s:element name="GetUserList">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="creatorId" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 <s:element name="GetUserListResponse">
 <s:complexType>
 <s:sequence>
 <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="GetUserListResult" type="s:string" />
 </s:sequence>
 </s:complexType>
 </s:element>
 </s:schema>
 </wsdl:types>
 <wsdl:message name="UpdateUserSoapIn">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:UpdateUser" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:message name="UpdateUserSoapOut">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:UpdateUserResponse" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:message name="DeleteUserSoapIn">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:DeleteUser" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:message name="DeleteUserSoapOut">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:DeleteUserResponse" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:message name="GetUserListSoapIn">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:GetUserList" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:message name="GetUserListSoapOut">
 <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:GetUserListResponse" />
 </wsdl:message>
 <wsdl:portType name="UserManagementSoap">
 <wsdl:operation name="UpdateUser">
 <wsdl:input message="tns:UpdateUserSoapIn" />
 <wsdl:output message="tns:UpdateUserSoapOut" />
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="DeleteUser">
 <wsdl:input message="tns:DeleteUserSoapIn" />
 <wsdl:output message="tns:DeleteUserSoapOut" />
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="GetUserList">
 <wsdl:input message="tns:GetUserListSoapIn" />
 <wsdl:output message="tns:GetUserListSoapOut" />
 </wsdl:operation>
 </wsdl:portType>
 <wsdl:binding name="UserManagementSoap" type="tns:UserManagementSoap">
 <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
 <wsdl:operation name="UpdateUser">
 <soap:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/UpdateUser" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="DeleteUser">
 <soap:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/DeleteUser" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="GetUserList">
 <soap:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/GetUserList" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 </wsdl:binding>
 <wsdl:binding name="UserManagementSoap12" type="tns:UserManagementSoap">
 <soap12:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
 <wsdl:operation name="UpdateUser">
 <soap12:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/UpdateUser" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="DeleteUser">
 <soap12:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/DeleteUser" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 <wsdl:operation name="GetUserList">
 <soap12:operation soapAction="http://somewebsite.net/GetUserList" style="document" />
 <wsdl:input>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:input>
 <wsdl:output>
 <soap12:body use="literal" />
 </wsdl:output>
 </wsdl:operation>
 </wsdl:binding>
 <wsdl:service name="UserManagement">
 <wsdl:port name="UserManagementSoap" binding="tns:UserManagementSoap">
 <soap:address location="http://someurl/someservice.asmx" />
 </wsdl:port>
 <wsdl:port name="UserManagementSoap12" binding="tns:UserManagementSoap12">
 <soap12:address location="http://someurl/someservice.asmx" />
 </wsdl:port>
 </wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>

Here is the stack trace I am getting:

org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection
timed out: connect
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.getDocument(WSDLDef
initionsFactory.java:198)
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.parse(WSDLDefinitio
nsFactory.java:106)
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.ServiceMetaData.getWsdlDefinitions(ServiceMetaD
ata.java:273)
 at org.jboss.ws.deployment.JSR109ClientMetaDataBuilder.buildMetaData(JSR
109ClientMetaDataBuilder.java:110)
 at org.jboss.ws.deployment.JSR109ClientMetaDataBuilder.buildMetaData(JSR
109ClientMetaDataBuilder.java:82)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.ServiceImpl.<init>(ServiceImpl.java:96)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.ServiceFactoryImpl.createService(ServiceFactoryIm
pl.java:157)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.ServiceFactoryImpl.createService(ServiceFactoryIm
pl.java:142)
 at somewebsite.Test.call(Test.java:26)
 at somewebsite.Test.main(Test.java:14)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown
Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Sour
ce)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown So
urce)
 at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.getDocument(WSDLDef
initionsFactory.java:181)
 ... 9 more

Let me know if I am doing anything completely wrong? I didn't find any helpful example / issues in forums / wiki / jbossws guide to consume a .net service.

Thanks

[vimalm]

I was not setting the proxy server and that was the reason for the error. After doing

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxyserver -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -DproxySet=true

I was able to get past this error. However I am getting another one now with this stack trace:

org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLException: java.io.IOException: Server returned H
TTP response code: 503 for URL: http://someurl/services/usermanagement.asm
x?WSDL
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.getDocument(WSDLDef
initionsFactory.java:198)
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.parse(WSDLDefinitio
nsFactory.java:106)
 at somewebsite.Test.call(Test.java:23)
 at somewebsite.Test.main(Test.java:16)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL:
 http://someurl/services/usermanagement.asmx?WSDL
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown So
urce)
 at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.ws.metadata.wsdl.WSDLDefinitionsFactory.getDocument(WSDLDef
initionsFactory.java:181)
 ... 3 more

A quick googling on the above error code revealed follwing link:
http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963256

Fourth reply on this topic posted the same error and somebody from JBOSS answered next that it is fixed in JBOSSWS1.0.3GA. I am using 1.0.3GA and getting this.

I am lost??

Any help is appreciated.

Between I checked from my .net client that web service is up and running. So the service being unavailable is ruled out.
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[vimalm]

I got around this error. It was aparently an issue with proxy which got resolved.

However with the current client code I am getting

java.rmi.RemoteException: Call invocation failed with code [Client] because of: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: .; nested exception is:
 javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: .
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invokeInternal(CallImpl.java:713)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invoke(CallImpl.java:404)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallProxy.invoke(CallProxy.java:148)
 at $Proxy0.getUserList(Unknown Source)
 at somewebsite.Test.call(Test.java:38)
 at somewebsite.Test.main(Test.java:19)
Caused by: javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: .
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.SOAPFaultExceptionHelper.getSOAPFaultException(SOAPFaultExceptionHelper.java:100)
 at org.jboss.ws.binding.soap.SOAPBindingProvider.unbindResponseMessage(SOAPBindingProvider.java:486)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invokeInternal(CallImpl.java:702)
 ... 5 more

Doing some research around the forums I figured I neeed to use the Call object to set this SoapAction stuff. So I modified code like

Call call = service.createCall();
 call.setOperationName(new QName("http://somewebsite.net/", "GetUserList"));
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY, Boolean.TRUE);
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY, "http://somewebsite.net/GetUserList");
 call.setTargetEndpointAddress("http://someurl/services/usermanagement.asmx");
 GetUserList gul = new GetUserList("notfound");
 //String str = "notfound";
 Object response = call.invoke(new Object[] {gul});

It still does not work with following error:

javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot obtain operation meta data for: {http://somewebsite.net/}GetUserList
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.getOperationMetaData(CallImpl.java:840)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.getOperationMetaData(CallImpl.java:820)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invokeInternal(CallImpl.java:618)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invoke(CallImpl.java:404)
 at somewebsite.Test.call(Test.java:48)
 at somewebsite.Test.main(Test.java:19)

I am lost...

[vimalm]

Ok. I tried with a different service and I am getting the same error. Could somebody please help?

Service is located at
http://www.xmlme.com/WSAmazonBox.asmx?WSDL

Here is the client code:

URL wsdlURL = new URL("http://www.xmlme.com/WSAmazonBox.asmx?WSDL");
ServiceFactoryImpl servFactory = new ServiceFactoryImpl();
URL mappingURL = new File("jaxrpc-mapping.xml").toURL();
QName qname = new QName("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "AmazonBox");
ServiceImpl service = (ServiceImpl)servFactory.createService(wsdlURL, qname, mappingURL);
Call call = service.createCall();
call.setOperationName(new QName("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "DvdBox"));
call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY, Boolean.TRUE);
call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY, "http://xmlme.com/WebServices/DvdBox");
call.setTargetEndpointAddress("http://www.xmlme.com/WSAmazonBox.asmx");
DvdBox req = new DvdBox("Disney");
Object response = call.invoke(new Object[] {req});
if(response instanceof DvdBoxResponse) {
 DvdBoxResponse result = (DvdBoxResponse)response;
 System.out.println("Finished" + result.getDvdBoxResult());
}

Here is the exception stack trace I am getting:

javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Cannot obtain operation meta data for: {http://xmlme.com/WebServices}DvdBox
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.getOperationMetaData(CallImpl.java:840)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.getOperationMetaData(CallImpl.java:820)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invokeInternal(CallImpl.java:618)
 at org.jboss.ws.jaxrpc.CallImpl.invoke(CallImpl.java:404)
 at xmlme.client.Test.call(Test.java:50)
 at xmlme.client.Test.main(Test.java:21)

I have generated the required artifacts from wstools. Set the proxy server settings on the command line.

What I am doing wrong??

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[vimalm]

Ok it finally worked but I am got frustrated by looking at solution.

Aparently

Call call = service.createCall();
call.setOperationName(new QName ("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "DvdBox"));

is not sufficient and will give the stack trace given in my last reply. However when I tried this convoluted approach to acquire my call object it worked without the stack trace:

Call[] calls = service.getCalls(new QName("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "AmazonBoxSoap"));
for(int ii=0; ii<calls.length; ii++) {
 Call call = calls[ii];
 QName opName = call.getOperationName();
 if(opName.getLocalPart().equals("DvdBox")) {
 DvdBox req = new DvdBox("Disney");
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY, Boolean.TRUE);
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY, "http://xmlme.com/WebServices/DvdBox");
 Object response = call.invoke(new Object[] {req});
 if(response instanceof DvdBoxResponse) {
 DvdBoxResponse result = (DvdBoxResponse)response;
 System.out.println("Finished" + result.getDvdBoxResult());
 }
}

Here is the complete client code in case somebody runs into this issue:

URL wsdlURL = new URL("http://www.xmlme.com/WSAmazonBox.asmx?WSDL");
ServiceFactoryImpl servFactory = new ServiceFactoryImpl();
URL mappingURL = new File("jaxrpc-mapping.xml").toURL();
QName qname = new QName("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "AmazonBox");
ServiceImpl service = (ServiceImpl)servFactory.createService(wsdlURL, qname, mappingURL);
Call[] calls = service.getCalls(new QName("http://xmlme.com/WebServices", "AmazonBoxSoap"));
for(int ii=0; ii<calls.length; ii++) {
 Call call = calls[ii];
 QName opName = call.getOperationName();
 if(opName.getLocalPart().equals("DvdBox")) {
 DvdBox req = new DvdBox("Disney");
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY, Boolean.TRUE);
 call.setProperty(Call.SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY, "http://xmlme.com/WebServices/DvdBox");
 Object response = call.invoke(new Object[] {req});
 if(response instanceof DvdBoxResponse) {
 DvdBoxResponse result = (DvdBoxResponse)response;
 System.out.println("Finished" + result.getDvdBoxResult());
 }
 }
}

Have a good weekend!

[thomas.diesler]

Instead of using painful DII. You could use wstools to generate the client side SEI and use service.getPort(MySEI.class)

On the dynamic proxy you should be able to make the call

[vimalm]

I went that route first but it did not work. I guess using DII is the only way to call .net web service from jboss-ws. I have read something in that effect on your wiki. Just don't have the link handy.

[jason.greene]

"vimalm" wrote:
I went that route first but it did not work. I guess using DII is the only way to call .net web service from jboss-ws. I have read something in that effect on your wiki. Just don't have the link handy.

You can call a .NET service provided that it is using either document/literal or rpc/literal.

-Jason