Deploying JAX-WS WebService on Tomcat-6

Now we are going to see how to deploy JAX-WS WebService on Tomcat Server.
We are going to deploy The AuthenticationService developed in http://sivalabs.blogspot.com/2011/09/developing-webservices-using-jax-ws.html on apache-tomcat-6.0.32.

To deploy our AuthenticationService we need to add the following configuration.

1.web.xml

<web-app>
 <listener>
  <listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>
 </listener>
 
 <servlet>
  <servlet-name>authenticationService</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>authenticationService</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/services/AuthenticationService</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
</web-app> 

2. Create a new file WEB-INF/sun-jax-ws.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<endpoints
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
  version="2.0">
  
  <endpoint
      name="AuthenticationService"
      implementation="com.sivalabs.caas.services.AuthenticationServiceImpl"
      url-pattern="/services/AuthenticationService"/>
      
</endpoints>

3. Download the JAX-WS Reference Implementation from http://jax-ws.java.net/
Copy all the jar files from jaxws-ri/lib folder to WEB-INF/lib.

Now deploy the application on Tomcat server.
You don't need to publish the Service by our-self as we did using EndpointPublisher.
Once the tomcat is up and running see the generated wsdl at http://localhost:8080/CAAS/services/AuthenticationService?wsdl.

Now if you test the AuthenticationService using standalone client it will work fine.

public static void testAuthenticationService()throws Exception
{
  URL wsdlUrl = new URL("http://localhost:8080/CAAS/services/AuthenticationService?wsdl");
  QName qName = new QName("http://sivalabs.blogspot.com/services/AuthenticationService", "AuthenticationService");
  Service service = Service.create(wsdlUrl,qName);
  AuthenticationService port = service.getPort(AuthenticationService.class);
  Credentials credentials=new Credentials();
  credentials.setUserName("admin");
  credentials.setPassword("admin");
  AuthenticationStatus authenticationStatus = port.authenticate(credentials);
  System.out.println(authenticationStatus.getStatusMessage());
}

But if you try to test with the wsimport tool generated client code make sure that you dont have jax-ws-ri jars in Client classpath.
Otherwise you will get the below error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.xml.ws.WebFault.messageName()Ljava/lang/String;
 at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processExceptions(RuntimeModeler.java:1162)
 at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processDocWrappedMethod(RuntimeModeler.java:898)