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Assembling a Web services-enabled client JAR file into an EAR file

Now that you have generated your application artifacts, you need to assemble these artifacts to create an enterprise archive (EAR) file that is used in the Web services application.

Before you begin

You can assemble Java-based Web services modules with assembly tools provided with WebSphere Application Server.

You need the following artifacts that are generated from the WSDL2Java command-line tool to complete this task:
  • An assembled client module that contains the implementation, all of the classes generated by the WSDL2Java command-line tool and the ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor or the application-client.xml deployment descriptor. This module can be:
    • An application client module that contains the META-INF/application-client.xml file.
    • An Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) module that contains the META-INF/ejb-jar.xml file.
  • The WSDL file that you used to develop the client.
  • The templates for the ibm-webservicesclient-ext.xmi and ibm-webservicesclient-bnd.xmi deployment descriptor, if used.
  • A generated Java API for XML-based remote procedure call (JAX-RPC) mapping deployment descriptor.

About this task

You can use assembly tools included with WebSphere Application Server to assemble Web services-enabled client applications.

Assemble the client code and artifacts that enable the application client to access a Web service with steps provided:

Procedure

  1. Start an assembly tool. See "Starting WebSphere Application Server Toolkit" in the Application Server Toolkit documentation for more information.
  2. If you have not done so already, configure the assembly tool so that it works on J2EE modules. You need to make sure that the J2EE and Web categories are enabled. See "Configuring WebSphere Application Server Toolkit" in the Application Server Toolkit documentation for more information.
  3. Import the client implementation and the artifacts generated by the command-line tooling into the assembly tool.
  4. Migrate JAR files created with the Assembly Toolkit, Application Assembly Tool or a different tool to the Application Server Toolkit or Rational Application Developer assembly tool. To migrate files, import your JAR files to the assembly tool. See "Migrating code artifacts to an assembly tool" in the Application Server Toolkit documentation.
  5. Assemble the JAR file into an enterprise archive (EAR) file using typical assembly techniques if the client runs in a container.

Results

You have assembled the artifacts required to enable the client application for Web services into an EAR file.

Example

This example of the assembly process uses the AddressBookClient.jar JAR file the AddressBookClient.ear EAR file:
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
META-INF/application-client.xml
META-INF/wsdl/AddressBook.wsdl
META-INF/AddressBook_mapping.xml

com/ibm/websphere/samples/webservices/addr/Address.class
com/ibm/websphere/samples/webservices/addr/AddressBook.class
com/ibm/websphere/samples/webservices/addr/AddressBookClient.class
com/ibm/websphere/samples/webservices/addr/AddressBookService.class
...other generated classes...
After assembling the AddressBookClient.jar file into the AddressBookClient.ear file, the AddressBookClient.ear file contains the following files:
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 
AddressBookClient.jar 
META-INF/application.xml

What to do next

Configure the client deployment descriptor . Now that you have assembled the client module, you need to configure the bindings so that the client can communicate with a Web service that is deployed on a server.




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