[MOBY-l] registering an axis web service

[Benjamin Good]

 Hi Rebecca,

    Thanks for your quick reply.  At the moment I am working behind a 
firewall that prevents Canada Moby from accessing the methods on my 
machine, but I've been successfully testing on a local central.  

    It seems that the problem that I was having was just getting the 
name of the container for my service correct...:(  I had created a 
package called biomoby.services and placed my EchoXML class inside it. 
 I got it running by setting the URL for the service to point at the 
package:
    http://localhost:8080/axis/services/biomoby.services
and the name for the service to the name of the method:
    echoXMLString

    For others who might be as unfamiliar with axis as I am it is quite 
handy to simply check what services and methods are actually avaliable 
on your machine by pointing a web browser at 
http://localhost:8080/axis/services

    Sorry for the beginner mistake, may this post help another beginner 
somewhere!

cheers
-Ben

Rebecca Ernst wrote:

> Hi Ben!
>
> what exactly so you mean with 'not getting anything back from the 
> service'?
>
> I would try it like this:
>
> register it (what you obviously did) with moby central Canada
> then you should be able to retrieve the service with the canadian 
> client (I just checked but i couldn't find your service?)
> try to execute it there
> do you then get back 'service not available' ?
>
> This is how we registered one of Viji's axis services:
>
> #!/usr/local/perl-5.6.1/bin/perl
> use MOBY::Client::Central;
> use MOBY::Client::Service;
>
> my $C = MOBY::Client::Central->new();
> $REG = $C->registerService(
>    serviceName => "getTestMessage",
>    serviceType => "Retrieval",
>    authURI => "mips.gsf.de",
>    contactEmail=> 'viji at gsf.de',
>    description => 'takes a object and returns a string',
>    category => 'moby',
>    URL => 'http://146.107.217.144/axis/services/TestAxis',
>    input => [
>         [undef,['Object', ['Global_Keyword']]]
>             ],
>    output => [
>          [undef,['String', ['Global_Keyword']]]
>                 ]
>                          );
> print $REG->message;
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rebecca
>
>
>
> Benjamin Good wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have developed a moby-compliant web service using Java Axis.  How 
>> can I register this with MobyCentral?  I've tried using a perl method 
>> like below, but can't seem to get it quite right.   Registration 
>> succeeds, but I can't get anything back from the service.  Also the 
>> wsdl generated by MobyCentral doesn't match the WSDL generated locally.
>>
>> sub register_service {
>> #$C is the moby-central instance
>>  my $C = shift;
>>  my $reg = $C->registerService(
>>    serviceName  => echoXMLStringRequest,
>>    authURI      => 127.0.0.1,
>>    contactEmail => bmg at sfu.ca,
>>    description  => "An axis service for testing",
>>    URL          => http://localhost:8080/axis/services/,
>>    input        => [ ['', ["Object" => []]], ],
>>    output       => [ ['', ["Object" => []]], ],
>>    category     => "moby",
>>    serviceType  => "Retrieval",
>>  );
>>  die "Bad return value from registerService" unless $reg;
>>  if ($reg->success == 1){
>>    print "Registration successful\n\n";
>>  }
>>  else {
>>    print "Registration failed: ", $reg->message, "\n";
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> Here is the WSDL generated when I run it (successfully) from a 
>> non-moby java client
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="urn:biomoby.services" 
>> xmlns:impl="urn:biomoby.services" xmlns:intf="urn:biomoby.services" 
>> xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" 
>> xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" 
>> xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
>> xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" 
>> xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
>>
>>   <wsdl:message name="echoXMLStringResponse">
>>
>>      <wsdl:part name="echoXMLStringReturn" type="xsd:string"/>
>>
>>   </wsdl:message>
>>
>>   <wsdl:message name="echoXMLStringRequest">
>>
>>      <wsdl:part name="in0" type="xsd:string"/>
>>
>>   </wsdl:message>
>>
>>   <wsdl:portType name="EchoXML">
>>
>>      <wsdl:operation name="echoXMLString" parameterOrder="in0">
>>
>>         <wsdl:input name="echoXMLStringRequest" 
>> message="impl:echoXMLStringRequest"/>
>>
>>         <wsdl:output name="echoXMLStringResponse" 
>> message="impl:echoXMLStringResponse"/>
>>
>>      </wsdl:operation>
>>
>>   </wsdl:portType>
>>
>>   <wsdl:binding name="biomoby.servicesSoapBinding" type="impl:EchoXML">
>>
>>      <wsdlsoap:binding style="rpc" 
>> transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
>>
>>      <wsdl:operation name="echoXMLString">
>>
>>         <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>
>>
>>         <wsdl:input name="echoXMLStringRequest">
>>
>>            <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" 
>> encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
>> namespace="urn:biomoby.services"/>
>>
>>         </wsdl:input>
>>
>>         <wsdl:output name="echoXMLStringResponse">
>>
>>            <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" 
>> encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
>> namespace="urn:biomoby.services"/>
>>
>>         </wsdl:output>
>>
>>      </wsdl:operation>
>>
>>   </wsdl:binding>
>>
>>   <wsdl:service name="EchoXMLService">
>>
>>      <wsdl:port name="biomoby.services" 
>> binding="impl:biomoby.servicesSoapBinding">
>>
>>         <wsdlsoap:address 
>> location="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/biomoby.services"/>
>>
>>      </wsdl:port>
>>
>>   </wsdl:service>
>>
>> </wsdl:definitions>
>>
>> thanks for any ideas
>> -Ben
>>
>>
>>
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