Use Maven to trigger a wsgen & wsimport in a row, using wsdlLocation
java, jax-ws, maven-2, maven-plugin
Solution
Assuming, you're not going to try to use the generated stubs in the same project that you're doing this in (which would create circular dependencies and be a bad idea...) then, yes, you can do something like this.
The config is not all that tricky, in fact you'd kind of guessed it in your question but here goes:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-wsdl</id>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>wsgen</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sei><!-- fully qualified class name goes here --></sei>
<genWsdl>true</genWsdl>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>generate-stubs</id>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>wsimport</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<wsdlDirectory>target/jaxws/wsgen/wsdl</wsdlDirectory>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile><!-- class name goes here -->Service.wsdl</wsdlFile>
</wsdlFiles>
<!-- *** you need the next line to set the wsdlLocation in the generated stubs *** -->
<wsdlLocation>http://localhost:8080/test</wsdlLocation>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Update - to package up the generated code into a jar I would use the maven-jar-plugin like so:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>package-wsclient-jars</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classesDirectory>target/jaxws/<!-- rest of the path here, can't remember it right now --></classesDirectory>
<classifier>wsclient</classifier>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
I've quickly pasted this from our config but our usage is a little different (as we zip up the wsdl files not the generated client but I believe this will get you pretty close). You'll probably have to setup the version for the maven-jar-plugin if you're not already using it - 2.3.1 seems to be the latest.
Problem
I have hard times using maven to generate my web service client. So please refer to Creating a web-service client directly from the source for the first part of my question. To keep it simple and short, I want to go from here (a file in src/main/java) : ``` package com.example.maven.jaxws.helloservice; import javax.jws.WebService; @WebService public class Hello { public String sayHello(String param) { return "Hello " + param; } } ``` to there : ``` /** * This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI. * JAX-WS RI 2.1.7-b01- * Generated source version: 2.1 * */ @WebServiceClient(name = "HelloService", targetNamespace = "http://helloservice.jaxws.maven.example.com/", wsdlLocation = "http://localhost:8080/test/") public class HelloService extends Service { private final static URL HELLOSERVICE_WSDL_LOCATION; private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(com.example.wsimport.HelloService.class.getName()); ...etc ``` using only 1 pom.xml file. Please note the wsdlLocation set on the end. The pom.xml file will probably use both maven-jaxws-plugin `wsgen` AND `wsimport` with some tricky configuration to achieve this.