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/h

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

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

    
        com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
    
    
        Adder
        com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet
        1
    
    
        Adder
        /add
    

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

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

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...