xsd schema not presented by wsdl

jax-ws, wsdl, xsd

Solution

I almost can't believe that this was such a difficult problem to solve!

I've been googling like mad to find a solution to exactly this problem! Then I've been struggling really hard to find a solution on my own. By debugger-stepping through the java-6-openjdk's default javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider implementation (the "factory" in the JRE that creates the javax.xml.ws.Endpoint objects that you use for publishing web services) I finally learnt some things, which helped me to craft a solution that at least works in Java SE, at least in my current JRE, which is:

java version "1.6.0_33"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.5) (6b33-1.13.5-1ubuntu0.12.04)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

Whether this solution is usable in Java EE I don't know yet.

Here is how I solved it:

package myservice;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;

public class App 
{
    private static final String MY_SERVICE_XSD = "/wsdl/MyService.xsd";

    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        Endpoint ep = Endpoint.create(new MyEndpointImpl());

        ep.setMetadata(Arrays.asList(sourceFromResource(MY_SERVICE_XSD)));

        ep.publish("http://localhost:8080/svc/hello");
    }

    private static Source sourceFromResource(String name) {
        URL resource = App.class.getResource(name);
        String systemId = resource.toExternalForm();
        InputStream inputStream;
        try {
            inputStream = resource.openStream();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to create InputStream from resource \""+ name +"\"", e);
        }
        return new StreamSource(inputStream, systemId);
    }
}

The crucial thing is that I first use method Endpoint#create (not Endpoint#publish) to get an unpublished Endpoint. Then I add the XSD-file as "meta data" to the (still unpublished) Endpoint (code "ep.setMetaData(...)"). Then I publish the endpoint (code "ep.publish(...)").

Now when I access `http://localhost:8080/svc/hello?wsdl` I get:

    <definitions targetNamespace="http://somewhere.net/my/namespace" name="MyService">
        <types>
            <xsd:schema>
                <xsd:import namespace="http://somewhere.net/my/namespace"
                            schemaLocation="http://localhost:8080/svc/hello?xsd=1"/>
            </xsd:schema>
        </types>
                  ...
    </definitions>

and my XSD-file is available from `http://localhost:8080/svc/hello?xsd=1`!

Note that my MyService.wsdl file on disk still contains:

            <xsd:schema>
                <xsd:import namespace="http://somewhere.net/my/namespace"
                            schemaLocation="MyService.xsd"></xsd:import>
            </xsd:schema>

Problem

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