Creating Web Services using Netbeans GUI only

Question

Hi all,
Creating, deploying & testing simple web-services through Netbeans point-n-click interface is quite simple (demo at: http://download.java.net/javaee5/screencasts/hello-simple-glassfish/). The demo shows a very simple service creation scenario, accepting and returning String types only. The service can easily be tested using the GUI option 'Test Web Service', which simply test the service through a simple web page at http://localhost:8080/MyWebApplication/MyWebService?Tester
In a similar manner, I am trying to implement a web service (a little complex one, accepting and returning custom types) using Netbeans GUI only. Versioning information I am using are as follows:
NetBeans IDE 6.1
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1_02 (build b04-fcs)
JAX-WS 2.1.3.1
Roughly speaking, the service's method signature I am using is shown below:
public abstract myclass.X MyService.serviceMethod( myclass.X )
Since it uses a custom type in parameter and return-types, the web-based test doesn't work any more. I wrote a separate client class to invoke the service using client-side stub classes (suppose to be generated by JAX-WS generated classes). The client code looks like as follows:
public class ServiceClient {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          MyService srv = new MyService ().getMyServicePort();
          X xin= new X();
          X xout= srv.serviceMethod( xin );
          System.out.println( "Result: "+ xout.toString());
Netbeans shows a compiler error on "MyService srv = new MyService ().getMyServicePort();
Is it possible to get it resolved without making use of ant scripts for generating client-side artifacts (stubs etc.)?
Thanks,
irfan

Answer 1

Hello Sandy,
Have you installed the Sun Java System App Server or JWSDP? If so, please make sure that one of the libraries in your Netbeans project contains the jaxrpc-api and jaxrpc-impl jars (which seem to be necessary to run wscompile).
Netbeans ("standalone") doesn't seem to install the jaxrpx libraries and other jars required to compile and run webservices.
Regards,
Jonatan