Deploy web service on 9iAS

Question

I have gone through the tutorial of creating a web service based on PL/SQL code. This all worked fine on my local machine, but now i would like to deploy a web service on a 9iAS application server.
I have managed to create a connection to 9iAS. When i want to deploy the web service i get the messages :
C:\jdev\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe -jar C:\jdev\j2ee\home\admin.jar
ormi://ifawagont014s.minlnv.agro.nl:3110/ admin **** -deploy
-file C:\apps\pcd\PCDWebService\pcd-PCDWebService-WS.ear -deploymentName pcd-PCDWebService-WS
Error: javax.naming.NamingException:
Lookup error: javax.naming.NoPermissionException: This operation was denied.
The admin.jar utility can not be used to perform operations against OPMN managed OC4J instnaces.
Please use Enterprise Manager or dcmctl instead.
Refer to the Oracle9iAS Admin Guide or the OC4J User's Guide for more details.;
nested exception is:
     javax.naming.NoPermissionException: This operation was denied. The admin.jar utility can not be used to perform operations against OPMN managed OC4J instnaces. Please use Enterprise Manager or dcmctl instead. Refer to the Oracle9iAS Admin Guide or the OC4J User's Guide for more details.
Exit status of OC4J admin tool (-deploy): 1
Elapsed time for deployment: 7 seconds
#### Deployment incomplete. #### 21-feb-03 16:15:26
Apparently i don't have enough privileges to register the web service?
So i move to Enterprise Manager. I generate a WAR-file and deploy this WAR-file on 9iAS in the OC4J_HOME instance.
When i test the web service by calling the WSDL file using :
ttp://ifawagont014s.minlnv.agro.nl:7777/pcd-PCDWebService-context-root/pcdws.PostcodeWebService
the respons is :
pcdws.Postcode WebService
Sorry, I don't speak via HTTP GET- you have to use HTTP POST to talk to me.
Servlet Path: /pcdws.PostcodeWebService
QueryString Info: null
I think the webserver can find something, but it isn't quite right!
Who can help me?
Regards, Dick Dral

Answer 1

Actually, it sounds like your deployment worked fine ... the message:
"Sorry, I don't speak via HTTP GET- you have to use HTTP POST to talk to me."
is the message that comes up in Oracle9iAS 9.0.2 at a Web service endpoint. Add a ?WSDL to the URL and you should get the WSDL for the Web service. Add a ?proxy_source to the URL and you should be able to download a client to the Web service.
Check out this tutorial at step 24 (http://otn.oracle.com/tech/webservices/htdocs/series/plsql/content.html) and you will see how the endpoint URL generates a more satisfying Web service home page in Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 versus the cryptic, but valid message in 9.0.2.
As for your deployment, the use of admin.jar for deployment only works on stand-alone OC4J's versus real full installations of Oracle9iAS - this is why the Enterprise Manager interface you used worked but the admin.jar did not. There is also a command line interface for Oracle9iAS called DCM which you can read about at:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A97329_03/core.902/a92171/dcm.htm#620714
that gives similar functionality. The reason that admin.jar does not work is that DCM and OEM solve a bigger problem in that they also support deployment to and configuration of a clustered environment so have that extra functionality built in.
Hope this answers your questions and gets you going.
Mike.