CXF SOAP Without Spring

CXF SOAP Without Spring explains about step by step details of Creating / Developing Web service using Apache CXF without any spring dependencies

Apache CXF  is a free and open source project, and a fully featured Webservice framework. It helps you building webservices using different front-end API's, like as JAX-RS and JAX-WS.

Most of the tutorial related to Apache CXF is developed using spring framework, this is because of easy integration with spring. But it is not a necessity.

In this, we are extending CXFNonSpringServlet in order to remove spring dependency.

Required Libraries

You need to download

  1. OpenJDK 8 / Corretto
  2. Eclipse 4.15
  3. CXF-3.3.6
  4. Tomcat 9

Following jar must be in ClassPath

  1. asm-7.1.jar
  2. cxf-core-3.3.6.jar
  3. cxf-rt-bindings-soap-3.3.6.jar
  4. cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb-3.3.6.jar
  5. cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws-3.3.6.jar
  6. cxf-rt-frontend-simple-3.3.6.jar
  7. cxf-rt-transports-http-3.3.6.jar
  8. cxf-rt-wsdl-3.3.6.jar
  9. httpasyncclient-4.1.4.jar
  10. httpclient-4.5.12.jar
  11. httpcore-4.4.13.jar
  12. httpcore-nio-4.4.13.jar
  13. neethi-3.1.1.jar
  14. slf4j-api-1.7.29.jar
  15. slf4j-jdk14-1.7.29.jar
  16. stax2-api-3.1.4.jar
  17. woodstox-core-5.0.3.jar
  18. wsdl4j-1.6.3.jar
  19. xmlschema-core-2.2.5.jar

CXF Without Spring

I am creating a sample web service project that pass Student object and return with some changes on that object. The service is using simple POJO (Plain Old Java Object) bean.

Firstly create a Dynamic Web Project (File->New->Dynamic Web Project) named "CXFTutorial" according to following screenshot

CXF Without Spring CXF Without Spring

Create a Student Object

package com.student;

public class Student {
 
private String name;
 
public String getName() {
   
return name;
 
}
 
public void setName(String name) {
   
this.name = name;
 
}
}

Create a Service Interface

This service interface will defines which methods of web service, to be invoked by the client

package com.student;

import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService
public interface ChangeStudentDetails {
 
Student changeName(Student student);
}

Implement the Service Interface

Here we implement the service interface created on the previous step

package com.student;

import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService(endpointInterface = "com.student.ChangeStudentDetails")
public class ChangeStudentDetailsImpl implements ChangeStudentDetails {
   
public Student changeName(Student student) {
     
student.setName("Hello "+student.getName());
     
return student;
   
}
}

Create a SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet

Here we are using SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet class in order to add service implementation class(ChangeStudentDetailsImpl)

package com.student;

import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
import org.apache.cxf.Bus;
import org.apache.cxf.BusFactory;
import org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFNonSpringServlet;

public class SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet extends CXFNonSpringServlet {

 
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

 
@Override
 
public void loadBus(ServletConfig servletConfig) {
   
super.loadBus(servletConfig);
    Bus bus = getBus
();
    BusFactory.setDefaultBus
(bus);
    Endpoint.publish
("/ChangeStudent", new ChangeStudentDetailsImpl());
 
}
}

web.xml

<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemalocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
	<servlet>
		<display-name>SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet</display-name>
		<servlet-name>SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.student.SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>SimpleCXFNonSpringServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Publishing CXF Web Service

Run CXF Without Spring

Note

You can Find all the deployed JAX-WS/JAX-RS services you need to append 'services' at the end of the URL so URL will become following

http://localhost:8080/CXFTutorial/services

Deployed CXF Web Service

CXF Without Spring

Note

you can also see CXF client example in order to run this service











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