Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring and axis

[Rob R. <rob...@ur...>]

Hi Michael - I've pasted the example configuration below. That's one of the
nice things of the Glue-Spring integration - there's no coding involved.
When we did this (back in spring of 2003), we were able to expose
Spring-configured objects as web services with no coding, just a little
configuration. Only thing we had to do was create a class with a static
method "getBean" that provides access to the BeanFactory (or
ApplicationContext) that you're using, similar to the BeanFactoryBootstrap
in org.springframework.beans.factory.support. We actually already had a
class like this, since we earlier had a need to have a singleton that makes
the ApplicationContext available (we weren't using Spring's MVC, so we
didn't have access to something like WebApplicationContext).

So assuming you have a class called something like "BeanFactoryAccessor" and
a static method called "getBean" on it, which would just access the
BeanFactory and call getBean on that, and assuming you have an object in
Spring called "MyService" that you want Glue to publish as a web service,
the configuration in the Glue services file is just:

<service>
  <factory>
    <class>com.foo.BeanFactoryAccessor</class>
    <method>getBean</method>
    <args>
      <arg>MyService</arg>
    </args>
  </factory>
  ... other Glue configuration attributes...
</service>

And that's all there is to it. It's really nice because you don't have to
use any Glue or Spring API's in the object that you want to publish. Check
out the Glue docs to learn about the services config file. You pretty much
just drop it into your webapp under WEB-INF, and when you start it up, Glue
will publish the web service and then load objects via Spring to handle web
service requests.

Hope that helps!

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Young" <sp...@on...>
To: <spr...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring and axis


> Rob,
>
> Thank you for your reply.  Yes I can try Glue.  Can you send me
> some sample code?
>
> Thanks!  /Michael.
>