Pascal’s Blog

In my former post I already said that I don’t like the JDeveloper wizard for creating Web Services. Although it is working fine and very easy in JDeveloper, the result is a web service that is only able to run on a OC4J instance! You can read about it in this (old) thread.
I am now [...]

In my former post (here) I described how to combine Spring WS with StAX parsing the SOAP messages. I ended with generating the WSDL as a test and said you could use Soap UI for testing the web service.
Well, I did. And I was running into the following error when I had deployed my web [...]

As I have posted before we are using XFire to implement our web service. Unfortunately, we are running into some serious issues with the framework, so we decided to look after another implementation. Since XFire is no longer supported by the community (or at least at a very low profile) and 'replaced' by CXF, we [...]

In this blog I'll show you how you can create a WebService of your EJB3 objects by using anotations. I will also show you how to build and deploy the package with Maven2. Let's start with the initial situation.
I have installed JBoss 4.2.1 and Maven2. In my settings.xml of Maven2 I have set a property [...]

As I described here I had a situation in which we wanted to be able to store all incoming SOAP requests for debugging purposes. The thing that made it a little tricky was that the logging had to be done before the request reached the XFire servlet and after JBoss had decoded the request (it [...]

This post is about a common rule for software developers (well, actually it is valid for every person in every day life). The rule is that whatever people tell you, it is wise to check it for yourself to make sure they are right.
While performing the load test of our web service (of course with [...]

Well, I think it is clear now I am a big fan of Soap UI. So here is another post about it. This time I explain how you can use it to perform a load test for your webservice and how to work around a common issue with it. One of the business rules we [...]

As I blogged a few posts ago, we are using the freeedition of SOAP UI to test our webservice and are very pleased about it.
In this post I will show you one way to solve a common problem when you are testing your software. It is the intial
managing the state of the database you are [...]

In my previous post I showed you how you can use Ant and XFire to create a client for your webservice. Another, even nicer and easier way, to test your webservice is to make use of soapUI. This is a free tool (I haven't used the Pro version yet) with which you can easily create [...]

As promised before (in this blog ) here is how to simply create a webservice client with XFire. I assume you have built a web service and have it running in your JBoss installation. First of all I have created this directory structure:
-XFireClientTest
  -build
  -lib
  -src
    -main
      -java
    -test
      -java