Updating the endpoint URL for a generated JAX-WS client

When you generate a JAX-WS client from a locally deployed service, the URL for the endpoint and the WSDL are hardcoded into the generated client code. If you redeploy the service elsewhere (i.e. moving from a local development environment to a test or production environment), then you could regenerate against the new URL for the service, but the JAX-WS api does allow you to programmatically specify the endpoint and wsdl locations.

From this post, the key is to use the BindingProvider to specify a new value for BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY:

BindingProvider bp = (BindingProvider)port;
bp.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, "http://your_url/ws/sample");

By itself though, this gave me an additional exception as it appears the client it still attempting to locate the WSDL. To work around this, you can also pass the new WSDL url location when you instantiate the generated client (this is discussed here). Before using the BindingProvider snippet above, pass the updated urls into the client like this:

EndpointService service = new EndpointService(
    new URL("http://your-url-to-endpoint/Endpoint?wsdl"),
    new QName("http://namespace-of-endpoint-from-wsdl/",
						"EndpointService"));

SpotCollectorEndpoint endpoint = service.getSpotCollectorEndpointPort();

 

Adding dependent jars to your OpenShift Maven repo – take 2

Looking at my last post when I last did this, it’s been a year since I last deployed something to OpenShift with my own custom dependent jars 🙂 And looks like some of the paths might have changed since last time, but the approach is still the same.

What worked for me this time:

mvn install:install-file -DgeneratePom=true 
  -Dfile=../../jar-file-name-inc-version-number.jar 
  -DgroupId=your-group-id -DartifactId=artifact-name 
  -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar

Looks like the relative path to where the jar gets copied to in your remote account changed slightly since last time.

The odd thing is I still ran into issues with my prebuild script file losing it’s executable flag, and it never seems to run as part of my build, but I can run it manually my ssh’ing into my account and just running it by hand.