This topic explains how to use to assemble a Web archive (WAR)
file from a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file that is enabled
for Web services.
Before you begin
You can assemble Web Services for J2EE modules with assembly tools provided with WebSphere Application Server.
You
must configure the assembly tool before
you can use it.
You need the following artifacts to complete this task:
- An assembled WAR file that contains the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) implementation,
all the classes that generate from the WSDL2Java command tool and the web.xml deployment
descriptor file.
- A WSDL file
- The complete webservices.xml, ibm-webservices-bnd.xmi,
and ibm-webservices-ext.xmi deployment descriptors, and the Java
API for XML-based remote procedure call (JAX-RPC) mapping file.
Why and when to perform this task
Assemble a Web services-enabled WAR file from a WSDL file by following
the actions in the steps for this task section.
Steps for this task
- Start an assembly tool.
The assembly tools, Application Server Toolkit (AST) and
Rational Web Developer, provide a graphical interface for developing code
artifacts, assembling the code artifacts into various archives (modules) and
configuring related Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Version 1.2,
1.3 or 1.4 compliant deployment descriptors.
- Click File > Import to import the WAR file into the
assembly tool.
- Open the J2EE perspective by clicking Windows >Open
Perspective > Other > J2EE.
- Switch to the Navigator pane by clicking the Navigator tab.
- Locate the project for the WAR file that you just imported in the Navigator pane.
- Expand the WebContent directory so that the WEB-INF directory
is displayed. Expand the WEB-INF directory.
- Confirm that the WEB-INF/web.xml deployment descriptor
for the Web module contains a <servlet> element including the <servlet-name>
element:
- Double-click Web Deployment Descriptor. If
you are in the Navigator view, you need to double-click on the web.xml deployment
descriptor. If you are in the Project Explorer view, you can double-click
on Deployment Descriptor. Both of these ways open the Web Deployment Descriptor
Editor.
- In the Web Deployment Descriptor editor, click the Servlets tab.
- Enter the full path name of the Java bean class implementing
Web services in the Servlet class field.
- Close the editor window to save your change.
- Right-click the WEB-INF directory and select New > Folder.
Create a subfolder named wsdl in the WEB-INF directory.
- Copy the WSDL file to the WEB-INF\wsdl directory by right-clicking
the wsdl directory and click Import > File system.
Browse the WSDL file for this Web service and click Finish.
- Copy the JAX-RPC mapping file as specified by the deployment descriptor
<jaxrpc-mapping-file> element of the webservices.xml file.
- Copy the webservices.xml, ibm-webservices-ext.xmi,
and the ibm-webservices-bnd.xmi deployment descriptors in the WEB-INF subdirectory.
Result
The artifacts required to enable the Web module for Web services is
added to the WAR file.