The wsimport tool is used to parse the published service WSDL (Web Services Description Language) file (http://localhost:8888/ws/server?wsdl) and generate required files (JAX-WS portable artifacts) for web service client to access the published web services. The wsimport tool is available in the $JDK/bin folder.
$ wsimport -keep -verbose http://localhost:8888/ws/server?wsdl
parsing WSDL...
generating code...
com\mkyong\ws\GetServerName.java
com\mkyong\ws\GetServerNameResponse.java
com\mkyong\ws\ObjectFactory.java
com\mkyong\ws\ServerInfo.java
com\mkyong\ws\ServerInfoService.java
com\mkyong\ws\package-info.java
You may only need to concern on the ServerInfoService.java having @WebServiceClient annotation.
@WebServiceClient(name = "ServerInfoService",
targetNamespace = "http://ws.mkyong.com/",
wsdlLocation = "http://localhost:8888/ws/server?wsdl")
public class ServerInfoService extends Service
{
//......
}
A client to access the published service.
public class WsClient {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
ServerInfoService sis = new ServerInfoService();
ServerInfo si = sis.getServerInfoPort();
System.out.println(si.getServerName());
}
}
The wsgen tool is used to parse an existing web service implementation class and generates required files (JAX-WS portable artifacts) for web service deployment. This wsgen tool is available in $JDK/bin folder.
Let’s see a web service implementation class, quite simple, just a method to return a string.
// ServerInfo.java
package com.mkyong.ws;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService
public class ServerInfo{
@WebMethod
public String getIpAddress() {
return "10.10.10.10";
}
}
Below code will generate JAX-WS portable artifacts (Java files) for web service deployment.
$ wsgen -verbose -keep -cp . com.mkyong.ws.ServerInfo
In this case, it generates four files :
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddress.java
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddress.class
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddressResponse.java
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddressResponse.class
To generate WSDL and xsd files for above web service implementation class (ServerInfo.java), add an extra -wsdl in the wsgen command :
$ wsgen -verbose -keep -cp . com.mkyong.ws.ServerInfo -wsdl
In this case, it generated six files :
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddress.java
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddress.class
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddressResponse.java
com\mkyong\ws\jaxws\GetIpAddressResponse.class
ServerInfoService_schema1.xsd
ServerInfoService.wsdl
Now all files are ready, publish it via endpoint publisher.
package com.mkyong.endpoint;
import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
import com.mkyong.ws.ServerInfo;
//Endpoint publisher
public class WsPublisher{
public static void main(String[] args) {
Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8888/ws/server", new ServerInfo());
System.out.println("Service is published!");
}
}