Re: WSIF Authentication Proxy

Harshal Mulherkar wrote:
> I am now using WSIF2.1_RC. I have an Axis Web Service running on Tomcat
> with authentication required. When I point to the WSDL endpoint using a
> web browser, the browser aptly brings up a login dialog to capture
> username/password and is able to retrieve and display the WSDL.
>
> Now I want to read the same WSDL using WSIF. Here is what I do:
>
> AuthenticatingProxyWSDLLocatorImpl locator = new
> AuthenticatingProxyWSDLLocatorImpl (wsdlLocation, username, password);
>
> Definition def = WSIFUtils.readWSDL(locator);
>
> At this point I get a NullPointerException and I do not see the supplied
> username/password being sent to the server for authentication.
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)
>         at org.apache.wsif.util.WSIFUtils.readWSDL(WSIFUtils.java:444)
>         at DynamicInvoker.invokeMethod(DynamicInvoker.java:220)
>         at DynamicInvoker.main(DynamicInvoker.java:151)
>   
could you try to use different version or compile WSDL4J from the source
- the problem seems to be in WSDL4J but there is no source line number
(WSDLReaderImpl.readWSDL(Unknown Source)).
> Any help will be appreciated.
>   
if it does not help send us what is needed to reproduce the problem
(such as WSDL you use and command line or any other source files)

HTH,

alek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksander Slominski [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Harshal Mulherkar
> Subject: Re: WSIF status
>
> hi Harshal,
>
> you can find the latest WSIF build as a pre-release at this temporary
> location http://people.apache.org/dist/ws/wsif/
> and hopefully in near future we have a maintenance release 2.1 - if
> there are any improvements or bugs please post to wsif-dev and submit an
> issue to apache WSIF jira.
>
> thanks,
>
> alek
>
> Nirmal Mukhi wrote:
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>> WSIF is being maintained at Apache; there is an active user community
>>     
> that
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>> posts to the mailing lists with bugs, fixes, questions, etc. Re. your
>> question about accessing remote WSDLs, WSIF 2.0 is quite out of date,
>>     
> you
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>> are better of downloading a recent build to get new functions and bug
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> fixes
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>> that have been added since then. We need to consolidate this inot a
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> new
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>> release, but for now you'll have to do with a nightly build.
>>
>> Take a look at http://ws.apache.org/wsif for instructions on how to
>> subscribe to the mailing list, access mail archives, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nirmal.
>>
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>>              "Harshal
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>> Dear Mr. Mukhi,
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>> With reference to your article on WSIF, Sep 1, 2001
>> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsif.html#resources
>> I would like to ask about the status of the WSIF project. Is this
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> abandoned
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>> by IBM? Is this being maintained at all by Apache?
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>> I encountered a discrepancy in the documentation and I could not find
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> any
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>> conclusive answer about the following API functions:
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>> org.apache.wsif.util
>> Class WSIFUtils
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> |-----------------+-----------------------------------------------------
> --|
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>> |           static|readWSDL(javax.wsdl.xml.WSDLLocator loc)
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>> |javax.wsdl.Defini|
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>> |           static|readWSDLThroughAuthProxy(java.lang.String wsdlLoc,
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>> |javax.wsdl.Defini|java.net.PasswordAuthentication pa)
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>> Source:
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> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wbihelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?topic=
> /com.ibm.wasee.doc/info/ee/javadoc/wsi/org/apache/wsif/util/WSIFUtils.ht
> ml
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>> These 2 methods in WSIFUtils class are apparently the only 2 methods
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> to
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>> access a WSDL on a web server that requires user authentication.
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> However
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>> these methods are not available in the WSIF-2.0 distribution of
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> Apache's
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>> WSIF. This raises the question whether WSIF is production ready or
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> not.
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>> I would greatly appreciate any pointers from you
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>> Many thanks,
>> Harshal Mulherkar
>> Multimodal Technologies, Inc
>> 319 South Craig Street
>> Pittsburgh 15213
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