[MOBY-l] registering an axis web service

[Benjamin Good]

>
>1.   Concerning the service setting. How do you deploy your service in AXIS,
>could I get the code to deploy it on my local test?
>  
>

For the simplest possible service that I have got to work.., the clode 
for the class is:

public class AxisEcho {
//    echo the request as a byte array - this will result in axis using 
the base64 encoding type required by moby
    public static byte[] echoByteArray(String xml_input) {
          byte[] input_byte = xml_input.getBytes();
          return input_byte;
    }
}

Compile this and put the class file in the axis/WEB-INF/classes 
directory.  Then deploy it by writing a .wsdd file like this

<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" 
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">
 <service name="AxisEcho" provider="java:RPC" style="rpc" use="encoded">
  <parameter name="className" value="AxisEcho"/>
  <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="echoByteArray"/>
 </service>
</deployment>

and deploy
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient my_deploy.wsdd

next restart tomcat.

next register the service.  I've just been using the perl code to do 
this although I know you can do it with Martin's java command line 
client as well.

Here is the relevant code:
sub register_service {
#$C is the moby-central instance
  my $C = shift;
  my $reg = $C->registerService(
    serviceName  => $sname,
    authURI      => $authURI,
    contactEmail => $email,
    description  => "Another axis service for testing",
    URL          => $url,
    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";
  }
}

There are more examples of perl registration code at 
http://biomoby.org/moby-live/Perl/scripts/testMOBYClientCentral_v05.pl

>2.  Concerning the http://localhost:8080/axis/services/biomoby.services
><http://localhost:8080/axis/services/biomoby.services> 
>
>My understanding is , your class name is EchoXML, and RPC method is
>echoXMLString, which return a xml file following MOBY response policy (not
>in detail here). Is that right ?
>  
>
Thats the idea.  Sorry for leaving an unreachable URL up there - I guess 
maybe that helped push Mark to put up the test central :)

>3. In your June 9 email, 
>  
>
>>>Registration
>>>succeeds, but I can't get anything back from the service. 
>>>      
>>>
>Do you mean you when you query the service list, you can not find your
>registration? I succeed in register and query my registration using Sanger's
>MobyCmdLineClient.java. Could try it to see if it helps
>
 I was actually using the wrong name..  You can register anything, there 
is no error-checking for bad urls or method names at the time of 
registration.  So, if you put up an incorrect name you can see it, but 
will get a service returned no response message when you try to access it.

>>>wsdl generated by MobyCentral doesn't match the WSDL generated locally
>>>      
>>>
>
> 
>
>You list the WSDL file which I think got by 
>
>http://localhost:8080/axis/services/YOURDEFINE?wsdl
><http://localhost:8080/axis/services/YOURDEFINE?wsdl> 
> 
>right? So Is that what your meaned "generated by MobyCentral" or "the WSDL
>generated locally"  ?
> 
>
This is what I mean by generated locally. If you check the wsdl coming 
back from requests to moby central you will see a much stripped down 
version of the wsdl supplied by axis.

One of my goals for the next few weeks or so is to produce a complete 
working example of an axis moby service that can be deployed in tomcat 
immediately as a war file.  Hopefully that will help get other newbie 
java developers such as myself who are also new to web services and moby 
up and running faster.  

I still have not convinced the sysadmin to open my tomcat port so can't 
share my services just yet :(

Hope that helps a bit, see also the mail from Viji.
-Ben