CXF+SPRING+POJO

Full maven project can be downloaded from HERE.

This is a follow up article to XFIRE+EJB+POJO.
Here I show how to expose POJO using CXF project instead of XFire. Setting up WebServices with CXF is very easy and consists of two steps:

• Setting up web.xml with CXFServlet.
• Defining POJO endpoint.



Setting up web.xml with CXFServlet.

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC  "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"  
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" > 
<web-app>

<display-name></display-name> 

<!-- CXFServlet expect these spring configs already loaded by listeners, endpoint context files will be defined as servlet param. 
This will allow us to have different CXFServlets with different endpoints -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:/META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml
classpath:/META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml
classpath:/META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>numberservice</servlet-name> 
<servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config-location</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/numberservice-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>numberservice</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Most of CXF examples have one spring context file that gets loaded through a servlet listener.
The one above shows how to have multiple CXFServlets defined with their own endpoints context file.

Defining POJO endpoint.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:simple="http://cxf.apache.org/simple"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/simple http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/simple.xsd">
    
<!-- ENDPOINTS -->
<bean name="numberService" class="com.tsolak.numberservice.NumberServiceImpl">
</bean>
   
<simple:server id="numberServiceEndpoint" address="/numberservice" serviceClass="com.tsolak.numberservice.NumberService" endpointName="e:NumberService" 
serviceName="s:NumberService" xmlns:e="http://service.jaxws.cxf.apache.org/endpoint" xmlns:s="http://numberservice.tsolak.com">
<simple:serviceBean>
<ref bean="numberService"/>
</simple:serviceBean>
</simple:server>

</beans>

Like in XFire with EJB article “numberService” bean can be replaced with EJB proxy in order to expose EJB as SOAP WebService.

After deploying to Tomcat hit http://localhost:8080/number-services-webapp/numberservice?wsdl for autogenerated WSDL.