Basic web service consumption not working: CXF

[mschipperheyn]

Hi,

Having followed the cxf documentation on consuming a webservice, I can't get it to work with a : "org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ServiceConstructio nException: Could not find definition for service {http://service.mysite.msw.nl/}VatValidatorServiceService."

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd">

    <jaxws:client id="vatClient"
        serviceClass="nl.msw.mysite.service.VatValidatorService"
        address="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/services/checkVatService"
        wsdlLocation="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl"/>
</beans>

@WebService
public interface VatValidatorService {
    
    public HashMap<String,Object> checkVat(String[] params);
}

public class TestClient{

    private VatValidatorService;
    
    @Autowired
    public void setVatClient(VatValidatorService vatValidator) {
        this.vatValidator = vatValidator;
    }
    [...]
} 

Any ideas on this supposed piece of cake?

Kind regards,

Marc

[dkulp]

My suggestion would be to take the wsdl and run the CXF wsdl2java tool on it to generate the proper interface for it. In you sample, the @WebService annotation (or the jaxws:client element) would require more parameters (such as service name and endpoint name) to match the wsdl, but even then, it still wouldn't work as HashMap isn't a valid return for that method.

Again, run the wsdl2java on the wsdl to get the proper interface and start from there.

Dan

[mschipperheyn]

Thanks for that suggestion. It generates quite a few files. It just seems such a far cry from the simple
<jaxws:client id="vatClient"
serviceClass="nl.msw.mysite.service.VatValidatorSe rvice"
address="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/services/checkVatService"
wsdlLocation="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl"/>

from the documentation which suggests that all these files are proxied by the framework. Which it what you would expect and want. In my mind, it just can't be that complicated to consume a basic webservice! Just FUBAR. But wsdl2java will prob work.

Again thanks for the suggestion.