Spring Boot register JAX-WS webservice as bean

Question

In my spring boot ws based application I have created a jax-ws webservice following a contract first approach. The Web service is up but I cannot autowire my other beans ins

Answer 1

You don´t have to extend your Configuration from SpringBootServletInitializer, nor override configure() or onStartup() methods. And in no way you have to build something implementing WebApplicationInitializer. There are only few steps to do (you could also do all the steps in a seperate @Configuration-class, the class with @SpringBootApplication only needs to know, where this one is - e.g. via @ComponentScan).

1. Register the CXFServlet in an ServletRegistrationBean
2. Instantiate a SpringBus
3. Instantiate your Implementation of the JAX-WS SEI (Service Interface)
4. Instantiate a EndpointImpl with the SpringBus and SEI implementing Beans
5. Call publish() method on that EndpointImpl

Done.

@SpringBootApplication
public class SimpleBootCxfApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SimpleBootCxfApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherServlet() {
        return new ServletRegistrationBean(new CXFServlet(), "/soap-api/*");
    }

    @Bean(name = Bus.DEFAULT_BUS_ID)
    public SpringBus springBus() {
        return new SpringBus();
    }    

    @Bean
    public WeatherService weatherService() {
        return new WeatherServiceEndpoint();
    }

    @Bean
    public Endpoint endpoint() {
        EndpointImpl endpoint = new EndpointImpl(springBus(), weatherService());
        endpoint.publish("/WeatherSoapService");
        return endpoint;
    }
}