Spring Web Services 2.0.0 M3 released

[Arjen Poutsma]

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0 Milestone 3 has been released!

This is the third milestone release in the 2.0 release cycle. The most important new feature in this release is inclusion of a client-side Web service testing framework. This testing framework is very similar to EasyMock 2, offering a 'fluent' API for all you testing needs!
For example:

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.xml.transform.StringSource;
import static org.springframework.ws.mock.client.WebServiceMock.*;


@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration("applicationContext.xml")
public class IntegrationTest {

  // MyWebServiceClient extends WebServiceGatewaySupport, and is configured in applicationContext.xml
  @Autowired
  private MyWebServiceClient client;

  @Before
  public void setUpMocks() throws Exception {
    mockWebServiceTemplate(client.getWebServiceTemplate());
  }

  @Test
  public void getCustomerCount() throws Exception {
    Source requestPayload =
      new StringSource("<customerCountRequest xmlns='http://springframework.org/spring-ws/test' />";
    Source responsePayload = new StringSource("<customerCountResponse xmlns='http://springframework.org/spring-wstest'>" +
      "<customerCount>10</customerCount>" +
      "</customerCountResponse>");

    expect(payload(requestPayload)).andRespond(withPayload(responsePayload));

    // client.getCustomerCount() uses the WebServiceTemplate
    int customerCount = client.getCustomerCount();
    assertEquals(10, response.getCustomerCount());

    verifyConnections();
  }
}

The WebServiceMock API has a lot more features than I can describe here, I suggest you try out the new testing module today! Please leave feedback through JIRA or as a reply to this thread.

Many thanks to Lukáš Křečan for helping out with this testing framework. It would not have been possible without him.

Please see the changelog for more details. If you have any further requests/issues, please use JIRA or reply to this post.

Spring Web Services 2.0 is due in the third quarter of 2010.

For more information, see http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/site/

Note that this milestone will not be uploaded to Maven Central, but only to our own milestone repo:

<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
  <name>Springframework Maven Repository</name>
  <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>

When 2.0 reaches GA, we will upload the jars to maven central as usual.

[skaffman]

Hi Arjen,

Where can we download the 2.0.0 M3 JARs? I can't find any download links for it anywhere.

[Arjen Poutsma]

Hi Arjen,

Where can we download the 2.0.0 M3 JARs? I can't find any download links for it anywhere.

There are available here: http://www.springsource.com/download/community, as well as the maven repo shown above.

[hudi]

Is there method to send whole soap message not just the body ? because If I send SOAP message it doesnt work

java.lang.AssertionError: Messages are different, org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff
[different] Expected namespace URI

[Arjen Poutsma]

Is there method to send whole soap message not just the body ? because If I send SOAP message it doesnt work

java.lang.AssertionError: Messages are different, org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff
[different] Expected namespace URI

Can you create a JIRA issue for this please? With the code that gets you this error attached?

Thanks.

[hudi]

I will try

[eva123]

Hi Arjen,

Where can we download the 2.0.0 M3 JARs? I can't find any download links for it anywhere.

Any chance you've got some more information on the testing/mocking you describe in this post? I can't seem to find information on the spring-ws reference page.

[alibkord]

After hours of debugging Spring-ws code line-by-line to see how it works and get a simple web service working (Due to lack of documentation about new DefaultMethodEndpointAdapter and MethodArgumentResolver and PayloadMethodProcessor implementations and how to use different annotations, etc.), I have to admit it is an impressing piece of software.
Well Done guys!
Looking forward to the final release and updated documentation.