WSDL/client-stub generation without EJBs ?

Question

My WL7 application invokes methods on external subscriber
web-apps. I need to provide WSDLs for these external apps, since
they'll be implemented by our customers.
Currently, I create 'dummy' EJBs, then create .ears out of it,
run 'servicegen' to create a dummy webservice, then run
'clientgen' to create the WSDLs and the client stub classes
that I'll finally use. I'd like to avoid some of the above
steps. Ideally, I'd just create the appropriate Java interface
classes, then use some tool to create the WSDL and the
client-stub classes. Is this possible ?
-john

Answer 1

Hi John,
Have you considered using a WSDL generation GUI, such as
http://www.omniopera.com/omniopera.html
Bruce
BTW, you do realize that when a webservice is deployed on WLS v7, the
WSDL is available to anyone using
http://<host>:<port>/<context_url>/<webservice>?WSDL
john wrote:
Bruce, I'm not sure how I would use those other tasks to obtain
what I want. AFAIK, the only way to generate a WSDL for a service
is to use the 'clientgen' task. And the clientgen task requires
the actual webservice implementation in the form of a .ear
file.
In my case, I need to create WSDLs which I then pass on to
my customers, for them to implement and host. Currently, to do
this I have to myself implement the desired dummy webservice
and then use clientgen to obtain the WSDL (along with the
stubs etc ..)
thanx
-john
Bruce Stephens <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi John,
In addition to the servicegen and clientgen ant tasks there are now
several other narrowly focused ant tasks such as autotype, and
source2wsdd. Check out the documentation:
http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs70/webserv/assemble.html#1011066
Hope this helps,
Bruce
john wrote:
My WL7 application invokes methods on external subscriber
web-apps. I need to provide WSDLs for these external apps, since
they'll be implemented by our customers.
Currently, I create 'dummy' EJBs, then create .ears out of it,
run 'servicegen' to create a dummy webservice, then run
'clientgen' to create the WSDLs and the client stub classes
that I'll finally use. I'd like to avoid some of the above
steps. Ideally, I'd just create the appropriate Java interface
classes, then use some tool to create the WSDL and the
client-stub classes. Is this possible ?
-john