You can 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 Java-based Web services modules with assembly tools provided with WebSphere® Application
Server.
For Java API for XML-Based Web Services
(JAX-WS) Web service applications, you need the portable artifacts
that are generated by the
wsimport command-line
tool when starting from a WSDL file to complete this task. The
wsimport tool
processes a WSDL file as input and generates the following portable
artifacts:
- Service Endpoint Interface (SEI)
- Service class
- Exception classes that are mapped from the wsdl:fault class
(if any)
- Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) generated
type values which are Java classes
mapped from XML schema types
You can package the generated artifacts in a Web archive (WAR)
file with the WSDL file and schema documents along with the endpoint
implementation that you plan to deploy.
For Java API
for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) Web service applications, you need the
following artifacts that are generated by the
WSDL2Java command-line
tool to complete this task:
- An assembled WAR file that contains the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) implementation, all the
classes that generate from the WSDL2Java command-line
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.
About this task
Assemble a Web services-enabled WAR file from a WSDL file
by following the actions in the steps for this task section.
Procedure
- Start an assembly tool. Read about starting
the assembly tool in the Rational® Application Developer documentation.
- If you have not done so already, configure the assembly
tool so that it works on Java EE modules. You need to make sure that
the Java EE and Web categories are enabled. Read
about configuring the assembly tool in the Rational Application Developer documentation.
- Import the JavaBeans implementation
and the artifacts generated by the command-line tooling into the assembly
tool.
- Migrate JAR files created with the Assembly Toolkit, Application
Assembly Tool or a different tool to the Rational Application Developer assembly tool. To migrate
files, import your JAR files to the assembly tool. Read about migrating
code artifacts to an assembly tool in the Rational Application Developer information.
Results
The artifacts required to enable the Web module for Web services
is added to the WAR file.
What to do next
Now you can assemble the WAR file that is enabled for Web
services into an EAR file. To learn more, read about assembling a
Web services-enabled WAR into an EAR file.