Building and Deploying a Web Service Created From Java

To build and deploy the web service, open a terminal window, go to the tut-install/wsit-enabled-fromjava/ directory and type the following:

ant server

This command calls the server target in build.xml, which builds and packages the application into a WAR file, wsit-enabled-fromjava.war, and places it in the wsit-enabled-fromjava/build/war directory. The ant server command also deploys the WAR file to the web container.

The ant command calls multiple tools to build and deploy the web service. The JAX-WS annotation processing tool (apt) processes the annotated source code and invokes the compiler itself, resulting in the class files for each of the Java source files. In the wsit-enabled-fromjava example, the Ant target build-server-java in build.xml handles this portion of the process. Next, the individual class files are bundled together along with the web service’s supporting configuration files into the application’s WAR file. It is this file that is deployed to the web container by the deploy target.

During execution of the server target, you will see a warning message. The message refers to “Annotation types without processors”. The warning is expected and does not indicate an abnormal situation. The text is included here for reference:

 build-server-java:
    [apt] warning: Annotation types without processors:
         [javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement,
         javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType,
         javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType,
          javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement]
    [apt] 1 warning