Matt Luce

Recently, I was trying to connect to a web service with the Spring Framework JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean. The web service and client code were generated with the weblogic servicegen and clientgen ant tasks respectively.

I found this example on the dev2dev site:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/09/spring_integration_weblogic_server.html?page=3

Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me. I spent almost an entire day trying to get it to work. So, in hopes of saving someone else some time, I’ve posted the correct way to make this work below. The example in the article is incorrect in one place. It uses the wsdlDocumentUrl attribute of the JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean. However, that attribute is a java.net.URL, not a String, so setting it with a string value will not work. The value I entered for the wsdDocumentlUrl had no effect. Instead, you need to set the wsdl URL on the Impl class generated by clientgen, by passing it into the constructor as seen in the second bean definition below.

<bean id="investorWebService"
        class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxrpc.JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean" lazy-init="true">
   <property name="portName">
            <value>InvestorServicePort</value>
    </property>
    <property name="serviceInterface">
            <value>com.xxx.fmg.investorservice.common.ws.InvestorServicePort</value>
    </property>
    <property name="jaxRpcService">
            <ref bean="investorServiceImpl"/>
    </property>
</bean>

<!-- allows the jaxRpcService class to execute its constructor -->
<bean id="investorServiceImpl"
        class="com.xxx.fmg.investorservice.common.ws.InvestorService_Impl" lazy-init="true">
        <constructor -arg>
            <value>http://server:port/InvestorService/InvestorService?WSDL</value>
        </constructor>
</bean>

Spring Framework 2.0 is coming out in the next few months. Supposedly there are some great new Web Service tools in that release. If that’s the case we can stop using the web service tools provided by BEA.

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