JDK5 + Axis2 : How to create a WS with URL encoded parameters?

Question

I have Tomcat 5.5 + Axis2 1.5.5 + 2 servlets running. One of my servlet is a custom servlet that runs axis2 too. I have WEB-INF and all subdirectories under it (conf, lib, services and modules).

Now, one of my class is EntityWebService which is the one supposed to be exposed as a WS. So i have made this services.xml file :

<service name="EntityWebService" scope="application">
    <description>
    service web sur les entites
    </description>
<messageReceivers>
        <messageReceiver 
            mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-only"
    class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCInOnlyMessageReceiver"/>
        <messageReceiver
            mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out"
    class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver"/>
    </messageReceivers>
    <parameter name="ServiceClass">com.webservice.EntityWebService</parameter>
 </service>

This one throws this :

 <soapenv:Reason>
<soapenv:Text xml:lang="en-US">
The service cannot be found for the endpoint reference (EPR) /myServlet/services/EntityWebService/getEntityList
</soapenv:Text>
</soapenv:Reason>

I had also tried a simpler one :

<service name="EntityWebService">
    <description>Web Service</description>
    <parameter name="ServiceClass" locked="xsd:false">com.webservice.EntityWebService
    </parameter>
    <operation name="getEntityList">
        <messageReceiver
            class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver" />
    </operation>
    <operation name="getEntityDescription">
        <messageReceiver
            class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver" />
    </operation>
    <operation name="searchInstanceEntity">
        <messageReceiver
            class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver" />
    </operation>
    <operation name="entityWriter">
        <messageReceiver
            class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver" />
    </operation>
</service>

This one throws the same too.

Both of these xml are supposed (at least it's what i understood from all web stuff) to expose these methods :

public OMElement getEntityDescription(String entityName)
public OMElement getEntityList()
public OMElement searchInstanceEntity(String login, String password, String role, String entityName, String property, String criteria)
public OMElement entityWriter(String login, String password, String role,String entityName, String actionType, String property)

Ideally i want to call these methods directly from my URL like :

http://localhost:8080/myServlet/services/EntityWebService/searchInstanceEntity?login=jmm&password=jmm&role=AdminRol&entityName=beans.Personnel.Salarie&property=all&criteria=null

I have made EntityWebService class like this so it can run with WS standards :

package com.webservice;

[imports]

@WebService
public class EntityWebService extends AbstractWebService
{


    @WebMethod
    public OMElement getEntityList(OMElement e) throws RemoteException
    {
               [...]

    }

    @WebMethod
    public OMElement getEntityDescription(OMElement omEntityParam) throws RemoteException
    {
               [...]
    }

    @WebMethod
    public OMElement searchInstanceEntity(OMElement omParam) throws RemoteException
    {
        [...]
    }

    @WebMethod
    public OMElement entityWriter(OMElement omParam) throws RemoteException
    {
        [...]
    }

    @Override
    public String getServiceName()
    {
        return "EntityWebService";
    }

}

Now my question. How can I expose my 4 methods with URL encoded parameter enabled?

My configuration doesn't work, seems like I'm missing something. I've managed once to make them callable but without parameters input. I retrieved Axis2.xml from last 1.5.5 release but no better results. We had an old configuration which worked with RPC messaging and XML but i wanted to get rid of AAR containers. I have a friend who have the XMLInOut messaging services.xml i showed you above and it works for him. He just made a directory under services like this : /myServlet/services/EntityWebService/META-INF/services.xml

Help me please, I need this for my work. thx

TecHunter TecHunter · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-08T08:53:02

Apparently, upgrading Axis2 config and using 1.6 axis release solved the problem. dunno how and why but whatever...

JDK5 + Axis2 : How to create a WS with URL encoded parameters?

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