Problems With Spring WS 1.5 Samples

[duffymo]

RTFM. The solution to my Maven problem was spelled out in the error message I got from Ant. I navigated my way to a local Spring 1.2.8 download, found /lib/j2ee/activation.jar, and typed this command:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.activation -DartifactId=activation -Dversion=1.0.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=activation.jar

This appeared to add the missing JAR to my local repository. When I rebuilt the code, all was well.

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[duffymo]

I can't build the Axis client for the airline sample.

The GetFlightsRequest class has a setDepartureDate that takes an XMLGregorianCalendar type, but the argument passed into the code is a java.util.Date. I don't know how this conversion is supposed to happen, but the code won't build as written. Any advice? What did I miss?

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[duffymo]

Airline sample JMS client builds fine.

It didn't run right off the bat, because I had to uncomment the jmsClient bean definition in the jms/applicationContext.xml.

Then I had to download Apache's ActiveMQ. Easy enough, but when I first started the listener there was a conflict with the standard RMI port 1099. I edited the conf/activemq.xml to change the port to 10990, restarted the server, and all was well. The JMS client ran fine after that.

Just .NET and Axis to sort out.

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[duffymo]

I had to add the Axis 1.4 JAR to my IntelliJ project, because it wasn't fetched from Maven. Once I did that, the Axis client compiled and ran fine.

Only the .NET client remains. I've installed the Visual Studio Team Edition with .NET 3.5. We'll see how that goes.

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[duffymo]

I'm trying to get the last client for the Airline sample running - the .NET C# client.

I'm totally ignorant of Microsoft technologies. I'm a pure Java boy.

So when I run the Ant build, I get an IOException: "Cannot run program 'wsdl': CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified".

Google tells me that error=2 means "You don't have the appropriate .exe in your PATH". So I installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite Edition. It put all kinds of stuff on my machine, including SQL Server. When I look at my PATH, I see SQL Server Tools /bin, but nothing for .NET.

I'm poking around under Program Files, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. What do I have to add to my PATH to make the Ant build work?

[duffymo]

I figured out that I need the csc.ext for compiling C# and wsdl.exe to generate .NET client from WSDL. I added both to my PATH (wsdl.exe was easy to find; csc.exe wasn't in plain sight, so I had to cut & paste the PATH out of vsvars32.bat into my environment variable). The generate task works fine, but the build does not. I get a fatal error from task <csc>:

fatal error CS2007: Unrecognized option: '/incremental-'

I tried setting the attribute "incremental=false" that's built into the task, but it didn't help.

How to fix? No joy from Google yet.

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[duffymo]

Now I figure that I'm better off using Visual Studio to create the .exe for me and forget about fixing the Ant <csc> task. I created a new project and tried to build the generated code, but there were beaucoup compilation errors. I guess I'll have to come up to speed with C# and VS very quickly.

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[duffymo]

The .NET client will not be happening for me. It's time to move on.

I created a simple project for the generated AirlineClient.cs, but when I build I get 12 error messages:

The type or namespace name 'Services' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I can see System.Web.Services in my object browser, and there's a "using" statement in the code. I'm not familiar enough with C# to debug this. Google hasn't turned up any quick fixes. I'm onto greener pastures.

I'd love to see the mtom and stockquote samples run. I'm going to move on and give those a try.

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[Arjen Poutsma]

See http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=52253 to fix the missing reference problem. Will be addressed in 1.5.1.