Java Web Services in a Nutshell

wsdeploy — JAX-RPC Deployable Web Archive Generation Utility

Availability

Java Web Services Developer’s Pack. The nearest equivalents for the J2EE 1.4 platform are the deploytool and j2eec utilities described later in this chapter.

Synopsis

wsdeploy [options] sourceWarFile

Description

The wsdeploy utility is a command-line tool supplied by the JAX-RPC reference implementation in the JWSDP. Its purpose is to create a web archive (WAR) file that can be deployed into a web container (in which the server-side components of the reference implementation are already installed) from a WAR file that contains implementation-independent components together with configuration information. The location of the source WAR file is provided as a command-line argument. This file must contain the following:

• The Java classes that define the service endpoint interface (or interfaces) for the web service. These classes typically appear in the /WEB-INF/classes directory of the archive.

• The classes that provide the server-side implementation of the service endpoint interfaces, together with any other classes and resources (e.g., images, sound files, text files) that they depend upon. These classes and resources are placed in the /WEB-INF/classes directory of the archive, or in the /WEB-INF/lib directory if they are packaged in JAR files.

• A partial web.xml file for the web application that hosts the web service. This file must appear in the /WEB-INF directory.

• A configuration file (called jaxrpc-ri.xml) from which ...