@WebServiceRef for JAX-RPC service?

[tomstrummer]

Hi, does the @WebServiceRef annotation work for JAX-RPC services?

I can retrieve and use a service from the InitalContext (so I know it works) but I was hoping to get rid of the JNDI lookup. However if I use @WebServiceRef I just get a NullPointerException. Do I have to do anything fancy in my web.xml in order to enable the annotation scanning? This is all in a servlet.

I'm using JBossAS 4.2.2.GA upgraded to the latest JBossWS client (3.0.1-native-2.0.4.GA)

This doesn't work:

public class TestServiceServlet extends HttpServlet {

 @WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation="META-INF/wsdl/IEnNET.wsdl")
 IEnNETService service;

 @Override
 protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
 throws ServletException, IOException {

 try {
 IEnNET port = service.getIEnNETPort(); // throws NPE
 // ...

This does work:

public class TestServiceServlet extends HttpServlet {

 @Override
 protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
 throws ServletException, IOException {

 try {
 InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
 IEnNETService service = (IEnNETService)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/service/EnNET");
 IEnNET port = service.getIEnNETPort();

web.xml looks like this:

 <service-ref>
 <service-ref-name>service/EnNET</service-ref-name>
 <service-interface>com.gridlogix.webservices.IEnNETService</service-interface>
 <wsdl-file>META-INF/wsdl/IEnNET.wsdl</wsdl-file>
 <jaxrpc-mapping-file>META-INF/jaxrpc-mapping.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file>
 <port-component-ref>
 <service-endpoint-interface>com.gridlogix.webservices.IEnNET</service-endpoint-interface>
 </port-component-ref>
 </service-ref>

Thanks.

[sagimann]

I'm having the same problem. did you solve this?

[tomstrummer]

"sagimann" wrote:
I'm having the same problem. did you solve this?

Unfortunately, no. I think there was an open issue related to this, with a fix version of JBossAS 5.0. I guess updating JBossAS 4 with the latest JBossWS JARs is not enough.

I had to go the traditional route and do a JNDI lookup as described here:
http://jbws.dyndns.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=JAX-RPC_User_Guide#Web_Services_Clients

[asoldano]

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef annotation is for JAX-WS only.

[michael.rollins]

For what it's worth, I've found that you have to instantiate the service, either when it's declared, or in the doGet, like so:

@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation="META-INF/wsdl/IEnNET.wsdl")
IEnNETService service = new IEnNETService();

I don't know if this is the "proper" way to do it, but it worked for me.