Demonstrates ability to host a JAX-WS service using Spring Boot and Apache CXF with zero XML configuration.
In a terminal, execute: ./gradlew bootRun
Alternatively can be run in your IDE of choice by running demo.spring.service.Application.java as a normal Java application.
Alternatively can be run via executing the war directly:
java -jar ws-server/build/libs/ws-server-1.0.war
Alternatively can be run by being dropped into a container such as Jetty or Tomcat's /webapp directory.
The service endpoint is <context-path>/api/hello. The full path to the WSDL/service is:
http://localhost:8080/ws-server-1.0/api/hello?wsdl
Running the given class demo.service.client.ClientDemo demonstrates ability to interact with the service without tight coupling or hard dependencies.
Running the client will print the following statement showing it received a response from the server:
11:32:18.394 [main] INFO demo.service.client.ClientDemo - Response from server: Hello hi, you beautiful world!
Alternatively the service can be hit with a testing tool, such as SoapUI or Postman, or any other technology capable of sending text over http.
The client code was generated via the WSDL. To reproduce this, in build.gradle, set the property wsdl2java.enabled = to true, then execute:
./gradlew ws-client:wsdl2java
This will output the compiled classes in ws-client/generatedsources, which can then be used to hit a running service without any coupling or hard dependencies. This generation only needs to occur when the service interface changes.