JAX-WS Loading WSDL from jar

Question

I\'m writing a fat client that makes use of a SOAP service for some features (bug reporting etc.)

I\'ve got JAX-WS working fine, but by default (in netbeans at least

Answer 1

Atleast for the recent JAX-WS you don't need to do any schema catalogs or programmatic wsdl location setting IF you put the WSDL in the JAR and then set wsimport wsdlLocation to the relative resource path of the WSDL in the JAR. That is JAX-WS uses Java's builtin Class.getResource to load the WSDL.

If your using Maven its something like:

  
    org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons
    jaxws-maven-plugin
    2.3
    
      
        
          wsimport
        
        
        
            
    /com/adamgent/ws/blah.wsdl
    ${basedir}/src/main/resources/com/adamgent/ws
    blah.wsdl
       
      
    
  

For the example above you would thus put the WSDL using Maven project layout here src/main/resources/com/adamgent/ws.

Make sure the WSDL gets in the JAR for Maven like:

      
        
          src/main/resources
        
       ....

Now your wsimport generated code and WSDL are in a self contained JAR. To use the service you do not have to set the WSDL location and is as easy as:

BlahService myService = new BlayService_Service().getBlahServicePort();

It should be trivial to map this over to ANT's wsimport.