How to manually deploy a web service on Tomcat 6?

Question

I'm learning how to develop SOAP web services with Java.

So far now I've been following this excellent tutorial

http://web.archive.org/web/20120626005333/http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jax_ws_2/

It all goes well, I have my web service working from the command line with it's embedded server and then, with the help of NetBeans I deployed it on Tomcat.

I'd like to know the steps to manually deploy it on Tomcat, in order to learn how it's done and because I don't like depending on an IDE.

I mean, I'd like to know how everything could be done from the command line and a text editor.

I've also found this link that explains how to manually deploy a servlet to Tomcat,

http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c292.html

but I couldn't find any article telling how to deploy a web service.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

How to MANUALLY build and deploy a jax-ws web service to tomcat

I was trying to figure out how to MANUALLY build and deploy a web service for learning pourposes.

I began with this excellent article

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jax_ws_2/ (new URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/jax-ws-2-141894.html)

The idea was to do the whole thing using only a notepad and the command line.

The only way I could achieve was by deploying a web service with netbeans, and then having a look at the war generated file at \dist\.war (it's just a zip file, you can open it with 7zip)

I leave this in case anybody is interested and for documentation purposes...

If anybody knows an easier way please let me know!!!

tested on:

C:\tomcat6\bin>version
Server version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
Server built:   March 9 2010 1805
Server number:  6.0.26.0
OS Name:        Windows XP
OS Version:     5.1
Architecture:   x86
JVM Version:    1.6.0_18-b07
JVM Vendor:     Sun Microsystems Inc.

saludos

sas

1. create the following dir c:\java\src\ws

2. create thew following file c:\java\src\ws\Adder.java

// c:\java\src\ws\Adder.java
package ws;
import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService
public class Adder {
 public double add( double value1, double value2 ) {
  return value1 + value2;
 }
}

3. standing at c:\java\src\ execute

c:\java\src> javac ws\Adder.java

file c:\java\src\ws\Adder.class will be generated

4. create the following directory structure with the following files

c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws

META-INF
  context.xml
WEB-INF
  classes
    ws
      Adder.class
  lib
    activation.jar
    webservices-api.jar
    webservices-extra.jar
    webservices-extra-api.jar
    webservices-rt.jar
    webservices-tools.jar
  sun-jaxws.xml
  web.xml

5. copy compiled file

copy c:\java\src\ws\Adder.class c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\classes\ws\Adder.class

6. c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\META-INF\context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/adder_ws"/>

7. c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <listener>
        <listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Adder</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Adder</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/add</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
<!-- not needed
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
-->
</web-app>

8. Config WEB-INF\sun-jaxws.xml

file : c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\sun-jaxws.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<endpoints version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime">
  <endpoint implementation="ws.Adder" name="Adder" url-pattern="/add"/>
</endpoints>

9. Copy libraries

files at c:\tomcat6\webapps\adder_ws\WEB-INF\lib

copy netbeans files from

[netbeans dir]\enterprise\modules\ext\metro\*.*

and

[netbeans dir]\ide\modules\ext\jaxb\activation.jar

10. restart apache

Shutdown : c:\tomcat6\bin\shutdown.bat

Startup : c:\tomcat6\bin\startup.bat

11. Test

Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/adder_ws/add?wsdl you can also use a tool like soapui (http://www.soapui.org/) to test the web service

that's it, I guess now I'll have a look at the way eclipses does it...