Re: [Xdoclet-user] Generating WebService for Websphere

[Sandeep K. <san...@vi...>]

Jeff,

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 08:49 -0300, Jeff Harmes wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
>     Thank you very much for you comments and suggestions.  I realize
> alot of my questions were Websphere specific - sorry about that - but
> I was hoping that someone out there with some IBM Websphere experience
> was doing the same thing and could offer up some advice.
> 
>     As an update, I have gotten a build process that correctly creates
> all of the appropriate ejb and web services descriptors
> ( application.xml and associated ibm-application-bnd.xmi and
> ibm-application-ext.xmi are all hand-crafted ), packages everything up
> with a resulting ear that is deployable to Websphere.  Once I validate
> that I can hit this thing with a simple Apache Soap client I can post
> my adventures to this list - if anyone is interested?  ( I know one
> person on here has expressed interest ).

Are you using ANT or Maven? Either ways it would be nice if you could
share your experience in generating IBM WebSphere specific config files
using XDoclet. Make sure to include your code snippets when posting to
this mailing list.

Thanks,
Sandeep Khanna

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Andrew Stevens wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:17, Jeff Harmes wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > >     I have a bunch of questions concerning the generation of WebService 
> > > for IBM Websphere:
> > > 
> > >        1.  Is my assumption correct that WebSphere expects Web Services 
> > > to be bundled in an EAR file?
> > >     
> > 
> > No idea.  Although I am using WebSphere at work at the moment, we've not
> > needed to create any Web Services on it yet.  I know you can deploy war
> > files without having to bundle them into an ear, but I don't know how
> > web services affect that.  But since this isn't
> > web...@li... I won't feel too bad about my
> > ignorance ;-)
> > 
> >   
> > >        2.  If that is true, my next observation is that XDoclet does not 
> > > provide any way to generate the required application.xml file.  Is this 
> > > correct?
> > >     
> > 
> > Yes.  There is no per-class info in the application.xml (unless you
> > happen to build a separate ejb jar for each bean and a separate war file
> > for each servlet, I suppose) so there's nowhere useful to put the @tags
> > and little point in generating it.  If we were to add a template it
> > would probably consist entirely of merge files, and you can do that just
> > as easily with "cat"...
> > Alternatively (caution: silly answer ahead*), since application.xml
> > contains information for each (ejb or web) module, and you'll likely
> > have an xdoclet task for each module somewhere in your build script, you
> > could create a target that runs the Ant script itself through some XSLT
> > and generates the application.xml from those xdoclet task elements.  You
> > could even use <xsl:include> to add merge points.
> > 
> >   
> > >              2a.  If this statement is true, then are people just 
> > > hand-crafting an application.xml file and making sure it gets included 
> > > when packaging
> > >                     their EAR files?
> > >     
> > 
> > Most likely.
> > 
> >   
> > >              2b.  There are WebSphere specific files that are created 
> > > for an EAR file:  ibm-application-bnd.xmi and ibm-application-ext.xmi.  
> > > Again,
> > >                     there are no facilities in XDoclet to generate these 
> > > files?  If not, are people also hand-crafting these files as well? 
> > >     
> > 
> > We certainly are.
> > 
> >   
> > > Should I be using IBM's
> > >                     wsDefaultBindings Ant task to generate the required 
> > > IBM specific application descriptor files?
> > >     
> > 
> > No idea.  Depends if it's just creating ibm-*-bnd.xmi files or if
> > there's more to it.
> > 
> >   
> > >        3.  I noticed that IBM provides an endptEnabler Ant task.  Do I 
> > > have to run my Web Service deployable ( EAR file ) through that task 
> > > before I
> > >            can deploy it to WebSphere?
> > >     
> > 
> > See my first answer :-)
> > 
> >   
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!!  I'm finding that there is next 
> > > to no documentation or examples of how to develop and deploy Web 
> > > Services to WebSphere without using their IDE.
> > >     
> > 
> > Ah yes, WSAD.  Or, as it's known around our office, V.Sad :-)  I've
> > managed to avoid it so far.
> > 
> > Sorry I can't help more.
> > 
> > 
> > Andrew.
> > * Hey, what do you expect?  It's 1am here...
> > 
> > 
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