Assembling a web services-enabled WAR file from a WSDL file
You can assemble a web application 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
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.