From time to time I am evaluating a tool or framework for which I need a web service. Although there are examples of running serviuces available on the web, I don´t always have access to the web and sometimes you need some more control over the service so you can edit/influence the corresponding WSDL. For these cases I created the following class which is all you need to get a web service running on your local machine (assuming you have JDK1.6 installed).
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In my current project we are going to need a BPEL engine besides our Mule CE implementation. Actually, we will use Mule for our stateless communication between systems and use BPEL for the stateful processes. One of the possible frameworks to use as a BPEL engine is Apache ODE. In this post I will show you how you can start a BPEL process in Apache ODE with Mule. As you will see, it is merely a combination of posts I made earlier, but I think it is nice to have the complete thing in one post.

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Although it has been a while since I posted about SoapUI I am still receiving questions about the tool. The most frequently asked question is how to solve the error ‘Error import WSDL’ so I will post the steps I took in the past to solve this error, hoping that this might help you. The first step I usually take is to try to open the WSDL in a web browser.
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This post is one of the series of posts about issues that occurred when we were using Mule2 in a real life project. As I wrote in my last post we were using CXF to call a webservice with Mule. After the issues we ran into as described in that article, we ended up with the folowing issue. The generated classes that are used for the XML to Java mapping has to be serializable. This is possible by using a binding file when generating the classes with Maven as described in the documentation here.
However, I haven’t been able to do this in my situation. And according to this post I am not the only one. So to keep the project moving I decided to make use of Metro JAX-WS instead of CXF, since this CXF thing had cost us enough of our precious time. With the Metro implementation we had it running in no time without any unexpected issues.

As I described here I am using JAXWS’ wsimport function to generate a Webservice interface and the JAXB objects for my application. The generated JAXB objects are also used as parameters for some remote EJB calls. Therefore I had to make the JAXB objects serializable. But the question is how to do this since these classes are generated.
Well, in these situations Google is your friend.
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As might be clear by my latest posts I am currently working on a project where we use Glassfish and EJB3 as platform for our JEE application. One thing that we had to decide upon was the WebService framework we were going to use. There are quite some options available but I decided to have a look at Metro, the JAX-WS reference implementation. Also due to the fact that it is integrated with EJB3 and Glassfish.
To create my ‘HelloWorld’ service with Metro and Maven2 I used this post as a guideline. I am also going to work top-down (WSDL -> Java approach) so I will be starting with an existing WSDL and then generate/create the web service interface for that. Although the post I used as a guideline is very detailed I ran into some issues, mostly the result of using different versions of dependencies and plugins. In this post I show the steps I made to get it working. I am using Glassfish-v2ur2 (comes with Netbeans 6.5) , JDK1.5 and Maven 2.0.9.

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A year ago I posted how you could create a EJB3 webservice and deploy it on JBoss with Maven. Currently I am doing a similar thing at my project, but this time I deploy it to Glassfish. The creation of the web serive is similar but for the deployment you will need another plugin (if you want Maven to deploy the webservice, of course).
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As you might have noticed by my last posts I am currently investigating the posiblities of Oracle’s Web Service Manager. I do this investigation by reading the Packtpub book ‘Oracle Web Services Manager – Securing Your Web Services‘, written by Sitaraman Lakshminarayanan. As the back-cover says this book mainly targets developers and architects with expertise in developing and deploying web services. And I want to add that it is most interesting if you are going to use or are currently using Oracle WSM, of course.
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This will be the last ‘hands-on’ article about testing Oracle WSM setup with SoapUI. I have posted about two other examples here and here. In this example Oracle WSM is configured to verify the signature of the incoming SOAP message (request) and to add a digital signature to the outgoing message (response). How to arrange this in Oracle WSM is described in the book so I won’t describe that here. What I will show is how to setup SoapUI to test the OWSM setup.
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As said before I am currently going through the book ‘Oracle Web Service Manager‘. In chapter 5 of this book an example is given how to configure OWSM to encrypt outgoing and decrypt incoming soap messages for a web service. To test this setup a dotNet client is created. In this post I will show you how you can test the setup by using SoapUI instead.
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