Part I Development Tasks and Tools
1. Setting Up a Development Environment
Part II Developing Applications and Application Components
Creating Portable Web Service Artifacts
GlassFish Java EE Service Engine
6. Using the Java Persistence API
7. Developing Web Applications
8. Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
9. Using Container-Managed Persistence
12. Developing Lifecycle Listeners
13. Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications
Part III Using Services and APIs
14. Using the JDBC API for Database Access
15. Using the Transaction Service
16. Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface
Clients can run a deployed web service by accessing its service endpoint address URI, which has the following format:
http://host:port/context-root/servlet-mapping-url-pattern
The context-root is defined in the application.xml or web.xml file, and can be overridden in the glassfish-application.xml or glassfish-web.xml file. The servlet-mapping-url-pattern is defined in the web.xml file.
In the following example, the context-root is my-ws and the servlet-mapping-url-pattern is /simple:
http://localhost:8080/my-ws/simple
You can view the WSDL file of the deployed service in a browser by adding ?WSDL to the end of the URI. For example:
http://localhost:8080/my-ws/simple?WSDL
For debugging, you can run a test page for the deployed service in a browser by adding ?Tester to the end of the URL. For example:
http://localhost:8080/my-ws/simple?Tester
You can also test a service using the Administration Console. Open the Web Services component, select the web service in the listing on the General tab, and select Test. For details, click the Help button in the Administration Console.
Note - The test page works only for WS-I compliant web services. This means that the tester servlet does not work for services with WSDL files that use RPC/encoded binding.
Generation of the test page is enabled by default. You can disable the test page for a web service by setting the value of the debugging-enabled element in the glassfish-web.xml and glassfish-ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor to false. For more information, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 Application Deployment Guide.