How to create and test a SOAP and HTTP web service in Java, Maven, and Spring

Question

Essentially I am trying to create a simple SOAP Webservice in Java, Maven, and Spring. I have tried following tutorials, books, and just hacking at it. Can anyone help please.

Background

• We have a project which is effectively a bunch of libraries boiling to a handful of interfaces.
• The project is a maven project created using the spring framework, mainly roo.
• We're running the STS eclipse IDE which has a vmware (vSphere) virtual web server.

What I'm trying to achieve

• Add web services for SOAP and HTTP endpoints.
• Have existing WSDLs for these web services.

What I have tried:

1. Creating a web service with "Top down Java bean Web Service" type pointing to the wsdl, VMware server.

• Creates a web service project separate from my existing project.
• Web Service seems to be synchronised in the virtual web server.
• Right clicking to the home page for the web server results in the 404 error.
• Looking at the localhost:8080 shows a running virtual web server page.

Problems:

• Project created is in the eclipse workspace rather than the source folders. This results in source control commitment issues.
• Is it normal for all web services to be a separate project per web service in eclipse?
• Right clicking to the home page for the web server results in the 404 error.
• Not sure how to debug the 404 error to determine the issue.

2. Created an SomeNameEndpoint.java file and generated a web service project from this.

• Creates a web service project separate from my existing project.
• Web Service seems to be synchronised in the virtual web server.
• Right clicking to the home page for the web server results in the 404 error.

• Looking at the localhost:8080 shows a running virtual web server page.

  package shlonline.integration.endpoints;
  
  import javax.jws.WebMethod;
  import javax.jws.WebService;
  
  import org.springframework.web.context.support.SpringBeanAutowiringSupport;
  
  @WebService(serviceName = "myServiceName")
  public class myServiceEndPoint extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport
  {
      @WebMethod
      public boolean runWebMethod(String input)
      {
          return false;
      }
  }
  

Problems:

• Right clicking to the home page for the web server results in the 404 error.
• Not sure how to debug the 404 error to determine the issue.

Answer 1

This tutorial along was really helpful for me, the project is available for github download, and uses maven and spring web services. It uses spring-ws with spring annotations of @Endpoint and @PayloadRoot annotations rather than the @WebService you have above.

http://briansjavablog.blogspot.com/2013/01/spring-web-services-tutorial.html