Re: [xwiki-users] Calling a web service from Velocity

I've used a bare-bones XWiki plugin to instantiate a webservice client using axis, then call that from velocity. XWiki is bundled with axis.jar, so there might be a more "native" way, but I've never seen it documented if there is. I think there might be a way to Just Make It Happen in Groovy just by passing in the web service URL, but I haven't investigated that. Has any one tried it? http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+SOAP The steps I did went something like this: 1) Use Axis's WSDL2Java to create the client. Something like: java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java --helperGen --output src http://theurl/to/the/service?WSDL That command will place the java classes under a directory called "src". 2) The create your plugin using the online example, and add a method to create a connection to your webservice. This is the method I have, except the class name is changed. Axis created all the needed classes in the previous step. Just import them. public YourWebService getWebService() throws ServiceException { YourWebService ServiceLocator imlocator = new YourWebService ServiceLocator(); YourWebService ims = null; try { //Actually get a service ims = imlocator.getYourWebService(); //cast it as the stub to set the password //YourWebService Stub stub = (YourWebService Stub)ims; //TODO: Set username and password //stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.USERNAME_PROPERTY, username); //stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, password); } catch (ServiceException se) { mLogger.debug("Big fat error in plugin: " + se.getMessage()); throw se; } return ims; } 3) Build and copy the needed jar files to lib. 4) #set($webservice = $xwiki.yourplugin.getWebService()) $webservice.method1() $webservice.method2("blah") $webservice.method3() -Tom -- Tom Kliethermes eSupport Initiatives IBM Information Management (913) 599-7240 Fax: (913) 599-8590 http://www.ibm.com/software/data Ute <ute_gerlach(a)arcor.de> 06/15/2007 01:33 PM Please respond to xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org To xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org cc Subject Re: [xwiki-users] Calling a web service from Velocity Sorry for posting this again, but I had the bad feeling that my first post didn't make it into the mailing list. Unfortunately I'm still struggling with making a call to a Web service... Cheers, Ute Ute wrote: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Calling-a-web-service-from-Velocity-tf3915895.html#a1… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org mailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/wws