Change ejb3 webservice url in weblogic

Question

I have an EJB3 session bean annotated with @WebService(serviceName="MyServiceName", portName="MyPortName"). When it is deployed into Weblogic 11g the service endpoint is located at

host:port/BeanClassName/MyServiceName

Is it possible to change the service endpoint address of the webservice? i.e. to

host:port/my/context/root/something/MyServiceName

I tried to use the weblogic-webservices.xml deployment descriptor, but it requires the webservices.xml descriptor which requires a WSDL location element, but that should be generated by the server and the location of it differs in the dev and prod environments.

Braise

One reason the above is useful is that in a Weblogic clustered environment, you can make a single entry in OHS (Oracle HTTP Server) and nest as many web services as needed under that entry. Example host:port/OHSEntry/BeanClassName/ServiceName. Otherwise, you need to make an OHS entry for each endpoint. – Mcauliffe

Answer 1

Suppose you have an EJB

package com.example;
@Stateless
@WebService
OrganizationService {...}

First you should write a webservices.xml file for it as follows, since its sections will be referenced back from weblogic-webservices.xml where the actual endpoint configuration is done.

webservices.xml (Caution: by adding webservices.xml webservice annotations in classes are overridden!):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<webservices xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.2">
  <webservice-description>
  <!-- just a label, can be anything you want -->
  <webservice-description-name>MyServiceName</webservice-description-name>
  <port-component>
    <!-- just a label, can be anything you want -->
    <port-component-name>MyServicePort</port-component-name>
        <!-- Target namespace from wsdl -->
        <wsdl-port xmlns:ex="http://example.com/target/name/Space">ex:MyService</wsdl-port>
        <!-- Fully qualified class name of the ejb interface/bean providing the service -->
        <service-endpoint-interface>com.example.OrganizationService</service-endpoint-interface>
        <service-impl-bean>
        <!-- The class name of the bean providing the service -->
          <ejb-link>OrganizationService</ejb-link>
        </service-impl-bean>
    </port-component>
  </webservice-description>
</webservices>

Then in the weblogic-webservices.xml you can define whatever endpoint you want.

weblogic-webservices.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<weblogic-webservices xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-webservices" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-webservices http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-webservices/1.0/weblogic-webservices.xsd">
  <webservice-description>
  <!-- This must match the name given in webservices.xml -->
   <webservice-description-name>MyServiceName</webservice-description-name>
   <webservice-type>JAXWS</webservice-type>
    <port-component>
     <!-- This must match the name given in webservices.xml -->
      <port-component-name>MyServicePort</port-component-name>
      <service-endpoint-address>
        <webservice-contextpath>/myContextPath</webservice-contextpath>
        <webservice-serviceuri>/myServiceURI</webservice-serviceuri>
      </service-endpoint-address>
    </port-component>
  </webservice-description>
</weblogic-webservices>

Braise

Above is almost complete, but it took answer from here to make it work. You need to ensure targetNamespace=xxx in class WebService annotation matches namespace in webservices.xml. – Mcauliffe

Answer 2

I found a solution that adds another endpoint to the one generated from a JAX-WS web service by WebLogic.

I have a web service like this (simplified):

@WebService(name = "ClientService",
            portName = "ClientService",
            serviceName = "ClientService")
public class ClientWebService {

    @WebMethod
    public ExtClient findClientDetails(String ref) {
        // etc.
    }
 }

The WebLogic endpoint is <context>/ClientService but I want it to be <context>/client/01.

In web.xml I have:

<listener>
    <listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>WebServiceServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>WebServiceServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/client/01</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Now WebLogic offers the web service at both endpoints.

Specifying the URI in web.xml is needed because the JAX-WS library in WebLogic ignores endpoint specifications in sun-jaxws.xml. (In contrast, GlassFish only exposes enpoints that are specified in sun-jaxws.xml.)

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