Summer is nearly over and last time I wrote here was just before last Christmas.. definitely time for an update!
During the first half of this year we've been working on fixing reported bugs of the JBossWS 5.1.x series. There are some plans for kicking off the 5.2 development, but at the moment the focus is still on maintaining the 5.1 series.
Anyway, JBossWS 5.1.3.Final, 5.1.4.Final and 5.1.5.Final has been released and included in WildFly... hey, did you notice that WildFly 10.1.0.Final is out? :-D Go and download it, it's really worth trying it!
As a consequence of 10.1.0.Final having been released, WildFly master has moved to 11 and here we are with a fresh WS piece of news...
JBoss Wise is coming into WildFly! You can read more here, anyway what this basically means is that a GUI for testing WS endpoints is going to be available by default in WildFly soon.
Really nice, isn't it? :-)
Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
How to kick start a WS project in few seconds
One of the goals I committed to when I joined the JBoss Web Services project back in 2007 was to improve the JBossWS tooling offer and possibly make the users' life easier when they have to deal with WS technologies.
Some of the solutions we developed in this area during the past years are now surpassed, others are still here and being used (as an example, think about the Wise project, which gets very limited attention from us due to lack of time, but currently powers the Web Service Tester within JBoss Tools, just to say).
In the last years Maven has been adopted as the de-facto standard solution for building projects; as a consequence, the JBossWS team made available a couple of Maven plugins for running its JAX-WS tools (wsconsume and wsprovide). As part of a customer project build it is hence possible to automatically generate a JAX-WS client or Service Endpoint Interface from a given WSDL contract and viceversa.
In February last year, with the aim of further clarifying how the plugins could be leveraged in final user projects, I wrote a post on the forum describing an example of the above mentioned Maven plugins.
The next step was to simplify the sample project creation and that's what has been eventually addressed. The JBossWS project now features a custom Maven Archetype, basically a WS-enabled project template toolkit.
Whenever a user needs to start a new project aiming at providing and/or consuming a JAX-WS endpoint, the new jaxws-codefirst archetype allows creating a starting project (including working build and sample helloworld client and endpoint) in few seconds. It's simply a matter of issuing a command and replying to simple questions on the desired artifact and group ids for the project being generated:
mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.jboss.ws.plugins.archetypes:
The generated project includes:
mvn wildfly:deploy
mvn integration-test
The build processes the various plugins and calls into the JBossWS tools to generate all the required classes for building the deployment archive and client. The user can test the sample, have a look at the project structure and then either trash the sample endpoint and testcase and replace them with his own components, or modify them step-by-step to achieve what he needs. No need to start from scratch anymore :-)
A 1.0.0.Beta1 version of the archetype is currently available; it relies on JBossWS 4.2.3.Final and is out there for early testers. I've been fixing few bugs on it recently and the plan is to release a new version, based on JBossWS 5, together with the next release of the webservices stack. So give it a try and send us your feedback; we'll try to fix any issue before the release.
Some of the solutions we developed in this area during the past years are now surpassed, others are still here and being used (as an example, think about the Wise project, which gets very limited attention from us due to lack of time, but currently powers the Web Service Tester within JBoss Tools, just to say).
In the last years Maven has been adopted as the de-facto standard solution for building projects; as a consequence, the JBossWS team made available a couple of Maven plugins for running its JAX-WS tools (wsconsume and wsprovide). As part of a customer project build it is hence possible to automatically generate a JAX-WS client or Service Endpoint Interface from a given WSDL contract and viceversa.
In February last year, with the aim of further clarifying how the plugins could be leveraged in final user projects, I wrote a post on the forum describing an example of the above mentioned Maven plugins.
The next step was to simplify the sample project creation and that's what has been eventually addressed. The JBossWS project now features a custom Maven Archetype, basically a WS-enabled project template toolkit.
Whenever a user needs to start a new project aiming at providing and/or consuming a JAX-WS endpoint, the new jaxws-codefirst archetype allows creating a starting project (including working build and sample helloworld client and endpoint) in few seconds. It's simply a matter of issuing a command and replying to simple questions on the desired artifact and group ids for the project being generated:
mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.jboss.ws.plugins.archetypes:
The generated project includes:
- a sample HelloWorld code-first POJO endpoint
- an integration test that gets the WSDL contract for the above service, builds up a client and invokes the endpoint
- a pom.xml for creating a war archive; the project has proper WS component dependencies and uses both wsprovide and wsconsume maven plugins for generating the contract for the code-first endpoint and then generating the client stubs for such contract
- a plugin for deploying the archive on WildFly.
mvn wildfly:deploy
mvn integration-test
The build processes the various plugins and calls into the JBossWS tools to generate all the required classes for building the deployment archive and client. The user can test the sample, have a look at the project structure and then either trash the sample endpoint and testcase and replace them with his own components, or modify them step-by-step to achieve what he needs. No need to start from scratch anymore :-)
A 1.0.0.Beta1 version of the archetype is currently available; it relies on JBossWS 4.2.3.Final and is out there for early testers. I've been fixing few bugs on it recently and the plan is to release a new version, based on JBossWS 5, together with the next release of the webservices stack. So give it a try and send us your feedback; we'll try to fix any issue before the release.
Monday, February 11, 2013
WS testing... Wise is back!
Wise is an interesting project with the aim of simplifying webservices invocation. One of the possible usecases it enables is quick testing of WS endpoints without the need of generating and compiling client stubs or directly writing SOAP / XML messages.
I've spent some time lately on this topic and finally cut a new release of Wise including a web gui. This runs of top of JBoss AS 7 and is hence based on JBossWS. Consider having a look, to me it's a convenient tool when it's time to test WS services (especially for business quality acceptance) and you don't want to get your hands dirty with code or xml (or you're not expected to do that, perhaps because you're a business quality engineer ;-) )
I've spent some time lately on this topic and finally cut a new release of Wise including a web gui. This runs of top of JBoss AS 7 and is hence based on JBossWS. Consider having a look, to me it's a convenient tool when it's time to test WS services (especially for business quality acceptance) and you don't want to get your hands dirty with code or xml (or you're not expected to do that, perhaps because you're a business quality engineer ;-) )
 |
| Wise Web GUI - Invoking a test endpoint |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)