Re: Where to find service classes

I'll be concrete by describing my Tomcat habits.

1. Install Tomcat at $CATALINA_HOME.  Leave it configured for HTTP access on port 8080.

2. Explode soap.war under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/soap.  Pointing a browser at http://host:8080/soap/ now brings up the contents of $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/soap/index.html.  Pointing a browser at http://host:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter brings up the page saying "Sorry, I don't speak via HTTP GET- you have to use HTTP POST to talk to me."

3. Install my service classes/jars and classes/jars on which they depend in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/soap/WEB-INF/classes or $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/soap/WEB-INF/lib.

4. Run

      java org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient
           http://host:8080/soap/servlet/rpcouter deploy dd.xml 

   for each service I want to deploy.  (OK, this is a simplification.  I sometimes edit
   $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/soap/WEB-INF/web.xml to specify a location for soap.xml, then
   create a soap.xml that disables Service Manager access and says to use the XML
   ConfigManager, then create a file for the XML Config Manager by pasting in the
   deployment descriptors.)

5. At this point, all services are available at the endpoint http://host:8080/soap/servlet/rpcouter.  This can be accessed remotely, or by servlets and JSPs running in the same instance of Tomcat.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alistair Young" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: Where to find service classes


> Thanks Scott, does that mean that all your service classes are under 
> http://www.yoursite.com/soap/servlet/
> What I'd like to do is have a range of services on virtual hosts:
> www.service1.service.com
> www.service2.service.com
> with the router as normal on www.service.com/soap/servlet/rpcrouter
> a sort of MVC almost.
> each service will have jsp files that will do non service things such 
> as display human readable status pages etc.
> Alistair
> 
> On 27 May 2004, at 17:08, Scott Nichol wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I think the best deployment technique is to have Apache 
> > SOAP and your service classes together in a single webapp.  That is 
> > what I always do.
> >
> > Scott Nichol
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alistair Young" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:47 AM
> > Subject: Where to find service classes
> >
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >> what's the best way to handle the CLASSPATH within soap? I have a
> >> webapp that contains a class that will handle soap requests. Of 
> >> course,
> >> when a request for that class comes to the rpcrouter, the router can't
> >> find the class as it's in another servlet.
> >> Can someone maybe advise on the best method for allowing the router to
> >> find classes in other servlets?
> >> many thanks,
> >> Alistair
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>