Spring WS - Writing Server

In this chapter, we will understand how to create a web application server using Spring WS.

countries.xsd

<xs:schema xmlns:xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
   xmlns:tns = "http://tutorialspoint/schemas"
   targetNamespace = "http://tutorialspoint/schemas" 
   elementFormDefault = "qualified">

   <xs:element name = "getCountryRequest">
      <xs:complexType>
         <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string"/>
         </xs:sequence>
      </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>

   <xs:element name = "getCountryResponse">
      <xs:complexType>
         <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name = "country" type = "tns:country"/>
         </xs:sequence>
      </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>

   <xs:complexType name = "country">
      <xs:sequence>
         <xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string"/>
         <xs:element name = "population" type = "xs:int"/>
         <xs:element name = "capital" type = "xs:string"/>
         <xs:element name = "currency" type = "tns:currency"/>
      </xs:sequence>
   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:simpleType name = "currency">
      <xs:restriction base = "xs:string">
         <xs:enumeration value = "GBP"/>
         <xs:enumeration value = "USD"/>
         <xs:enumeration value = "INR"/>
      </xs:restriction>
   </xs:simpleType>
</xs:schema>

Create Domain Classes

Download jaxb-ri.zip from , and set the path till jaxb-ri\bin which contains xjc tool.

Copy the countries.xsd in \leaveservice\webapp\WEB-INF folder. Let us open the command console, go the leaveservice\leaveservice\webapp\WEB-INF directory and execute the following xjc command to generate domain classes using the countries.xsd.

xjc -p com.tutorialspoint countries.xsd

Maven will start processing and will create the domain classes in com.tutorialspoint package.

parsing a schema...
compiling a schema...
com\tutorialspoint\Country.java
com\tutorialspoint\Currency.java
com\tutorialspoint\GetCountryRequest.java
com\tutorialspoint\GetCountryResponse.java
com\tutorialspoint\ObjectFactory.java
com\tutorialspoint\package-info.java

Move all the classes to the leaveservice\src\main\java folder. Create CountryRepository and CountryEndPoint to represent the country database and country server respectively.

CountryRepository.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

@Component
public class CountryRepository {
   private static final List<Country> countries = new ArrayList<Country>();

   public CountryRepository(){
      initData();
   }
   public void initData() {
      Country us = new Country();
      us.setName("United States");
      us.setCapital("Washington");
      us.setCurrency(Currency.USD);
      us.setPopulation(46704314);
   
      countries.add(us);
   
      Country india = new Country();
      india.setName("India");
      india.setCapital("New Delhi");
      india.setCurrency(Currency.INR);
      india.setPopulation(138186860);

      countries.add(india);
    
      Country uk = new Country();
      uk.setName("United Kingdom");
      uk.setCapital("London");
      uk.setCurrency(Currency.GBP);
      uk.setPopulation(63705000);
   
      countries.add(uk);
   }
   public Country findCountry(String name) {
      Country result = null;

      for (Country country : countries) {
         if (name.trim().equals(country.getName())) {
            result = country;
         }
      }
      return result;
   }
}

CountryEndPoint.java

package com.tutorialspoint.ws;

import org.jdom2.JDOMException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.annotation.Endpoint;
import org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.annotation.PayloadRoot;
import org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.annotation.RequestPayload;
import org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.annotation.ResponsePayload;

import com.tutorialspoint.Country;
import com.tutorialspoint.CountryRepository;
import com.tutorialspoint.GetCountryRequest;
import com.tutorialspoint.GetCountryResponse;

@Endpoint
public class CountryEndPoint {
   private static final String NAMESPACE_URI = "http://tutorialspoint/schemas";
   private CountryRepository countryRepository;

   @Autowired
   public CountryEndPoint(CountryRepository countryRepository) throws JDOMException {
      this.countryRepository = countryRepository;
   }
   @PayloadRoot(namespace = NAMESPACE_URI, localPart = "getCountryRequest")
   @ResponsePayload
   public GetCountryResponse getCountry(@RequestPayload GetCountryRequest request) 
      throws JDOMException {
      
      Country country = countryRepository.findCountry(request.getName());
      GetCountryResponse response = new GetCountryResponse();
      response.setCountry(country);
      return response;
   }
}

spring-ws-servlet.xml

<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:context = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:sws = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-2.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

   <context:component-scan base-package = "com.tutorialspoint"/>
   <sws:annotation-driven/>

   <sws:dynamic-wsdl id="countries"
      portTypeName = "CountriesPort"
      locationUri = "/countryService/"
      targetNamespace = "http://tutorialspoint.com/definitions">
      <sws:xsd location = "/WEB-INF/countries.xsd"/>
   </sws:dynamic-wsdl>
</beans>

/WEB-INF/web.xml

<web-app xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
   version = "2.4">

   <display-name>TutorialsPoint Country Service</display-name>

   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>spring-ws</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet
      </servlet-class>
      <init-param>
         <param-name>transformWsdlLocations</param-name>
         <param-value>true</param-value>
      </init-param>
   </servlet>
   
   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>spring-ws</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Running the Project

Once you are done with creating source and configuration files, create the war file using maven install command and save your leaveservice.war file available in /target folder in Tomcat's webapps folder.

Now, start the Tomcat server and ensure if we can access other webpages from the webapps folder using a standard browser. Make a POST request to the URL http://localhost:8080/leaveservice/countryService/ and by using any SOAP client make the following request.

<x:Envelope xmlns:x = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
   xmlns:tns = "http://tutorialspoint/schemas">
   <x:Header/>
   <x:Body>
      <tns:getCountryRequest>
         <tns:name>United States</tns:name>
      </tns:getCountryRequest>
   </x:Body>
</x:Envelope>

You will see the following result.

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <ns2:getCountryResponse xmlns:ns2 = "http://tutorialspoint/schemas">
         <ns2:country>
            <ns2:name>United States</ns2:name>
            <ns2:population>46704314</ns2:population>
            <ns2:capital>Washington</ns2:capital>
            <ns2:currency>USD</ns2:currency>
         </ns2:country>
      </ns2:getCountryResponse>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>