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1.3. Generating WSDL

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5/23/12
Changed the description of code generation to use Maven instead of command line tools to reflect best practices.

Using Maven
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Once your code is annotated, you can generate a WSDL contract for your service using the java2ws Maven plug-in's -wsdl option. For a detailed listing of options for the java2ws Maven plug-in see java2ws.
Example 1.18, “Generating WSDL from Java” shows how to set up the java2ws Maven plug-in to generate WSDL.

Example 1.18. Generating WSDL from Java

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
  <artifactId>cxf-java2ws-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${cxf.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>process-classes</id>
      <phase>process-classes</phase>
      <configuration>
        <className>className</className>
        <genWsdl>true</genWsdl>
      </configuration>
      <goals>
        <goal>java2ws</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
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Example 1.19, “Generated WSDL from an SEI” shows the WSDL contract that is generated for the SEI shown in Example 1.7, “Fully Annotated SEI”.

Example 1.19. Generated WSDL from an SEI

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://demo.eric.org/" 
          xmlns:tns="http://demo.eric.org/" 
		  xmlns:ns1="" 
		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
		  xmlns:ns2="http://demo.eric.org/types" 
		  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" 
		  xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
  <wsdl:types>
    <xsd:schema>
      <xs:complexType name="quote">
        <xs:sequence>
          <xs:element name="ID" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
          <xs:element name="time" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
          <xs:element name="val" type="xs:float"/>
        </xs:sequence>
      </xs:complexType>
    </xsd:schema>
  </wsdl:types>
  <wsdl:message name="getStockQuote">
    <wsdl:part name="stockTicker" type="xsd:string">
    </wsdl:part>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="getStockQuoteResponse">
    <wsdl:part name="updatedQuote" type="tns:quote">
    </wsdl:part>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:portType name="quoteReporter">
    <wsdl:operation name="getStockQuote">
      <wsdl:input name="getQuote" message="tns:getStockQuote">
    </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output name="getQuoteResponse" message="tns:getStockQuoteResponse">
    </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:portType>
  <wsdl:binding name="quoteReporterBinding" type="tns:quoteReporter">
    <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
    <wsdl:operation name="getStockQuote">
      <soap:operation style="rpc" />
      <wsdl:input name="getQuote">
        <soap:body use="literal" />
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output name="getQuoteResponse">
        <soap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:binding>
  <wsdl:service name="quoteReporterService">
    <wsdl:port name="quoteReporterPort" binding="tns:quoteReporterBinding">
      <soap:address location="http://localhost:9000/quoteReporterService" />
    </wsdl:port>
  </wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>
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