I have a system (kind of aggregator) that integrates with hundreds of different SOAP services - most of them do the same business functionality, but each service having different data structure in SOAP request & very few having 2 API calls to complete one transaction.
The present service integration workflow is
create stubs from WSDL
map data to the generated stub api
setup a new endpoint to fire this api
I see this a repeated, unintelligent work & requires development effort for every new service integration.
Was there different approaches to integrate with lot many systems? Any libraries that can generate soap requests based on configurations, or I have to rely on some Java SOAP, Spring lirbaries to create custom SOAP xml request from my own configurations? I see Spring's WebServiceGatewaySupport for webservice client but requires stubs created from wsdl?
Is it wise to define soap request xml as templates for every service, generate xml with input data?
Other ways I thought was to develop each integrations as independent microservice layered under an API gateway that routes each requests to specific service. But this design approach will have hundreds of services running, consuming more resources (in case of Spring boot).
Generate stubs & deposit the jar to disk, load this jar with a classloader & use the stubs using reflection - not so simple, I believe.
Use of serverless looks promising but is not possible immediately.
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I have recently encountered a problem statement ,there is a legacy code using soap based web service and ant as build tool.
My task is to convert the soap based web service to rest endpoint using spring boot and then end goal is to convert to microservice.
I have seen lot of articles where spring starter project is created with spring webservice dependency and they are also generating the classes through xsd's and using annotations like payload and SOAP configuration and checking the wsdl after running the application.
Is this the right approach to convert soap to rest but in my understanding it is simply creating soap web services using spring boot.
If we expose Rest Controllers with Pojos generated and generating the response type as xml or json ,do we need to do something apart from this to achieve the goal of converting soap to rest?
Any suggestions?
I am still exploring the working solution.
So far I have created the config client and server and I am thinking how to code inside the client code to expose soap as rest service.
I new to SOAP web service. In my project there is a requirement where I need to consume the SOAP web service in spring MVC. I tried search in google I am not getting simple example to integrate the SOAP services with spring MVC.
I have few other question as well.
What is JAXB? As per my understanding the JAXB is used for marshalling and unmarshalling the objects from service.
2.Whether I can use both restful web service and SOAP web service together in same spring mvc application?
3.What is different between Spring-WS and JAX-WS?
What is JAXB? As per my understanding the JAXB is used for marshalling
and unmarshalling the objects ?
Yes, JAXB is a framework which can be used to convert Java object into an XML file (stream) and vice versa.
Java Object to an XML file conversion is called marshalling and the opposite is unmarshalling.
This technique will be useful when two applications are exchanging the business data using XML.
2.Whether I can use both restful web service and SOAP web service together in same spring mvc application ?
Yes, you can use both together with in the same project as per your business requirements.
For example, assume that your application (project) might need some data from two external sources i.e., external system1 (assume that it exposes it's endpoints in SOAP) and
external system2 (assume that it exposes it's endpoints in REST), your application has to interact with both of those to exchange the data.
Similarly your application might need to expose few services in REST and few services in SOAP (assume that the other system can consume only SOAP), it is all about agreeing between different systems on data exchanging formats.
3.What is the difference between Spring-WS and JAX-WS ?
JAX-WS is a specification & implementation built into JDK for consuming/producing SOAP services.
Spring-WS is a Spring API for consuming/producing SOAP services.
There are two types of SOAP frameworks available for the development of projects:
Compliant to JAX-WS - like Apache CXF, Apache Axis2, etc..
Non compliant to JAX-WS - Spring-WS
You can look at here for the list of web service frameworks
I'm trying to learn SI (Spring Integration) but i'm a bit confused on the real usage of this.
As first example i would like to interact with a WebService but i dont understand what could be the difference from
Invoke a WebService Using SI
Invoke a Webservice using RestTemplate
So, what is the benefit of using SI (in Webservice context, or in other context)?
Looking the web, i havent find an article that explain:
Usually you will do in this way....
With SI you can do better - in this another way - and the benefit are....
To be more explicit on what i have to realize, this is an example:
1) I have to write an application (Standalone application) that have to collect some data in the system periodically and then invoke a Web Service that will store it.
2) The Web Service receive the call from the "clients" and store in the database.
My webservice will use REST.
The reason because i've think to use SI is that the Standalone Application should interact with different system
Webservice in first instance
A Web Mail, if the webservice is not achievable
File system if Web mail is not achievable too
If you only need to pull some data in a simple way and push it onwards to a REST service this does not "justify" the use of Spring Integration. A simple Spring (Boot) application combined with a scheduler will be sufficient.
But if you want to use a more complex data source for which an endpoint is available, you need transformations, complex and flexible routing is a high priority or even Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) then Spring Integration is for you. Have a look at the Overview and decide if it mentions something you consider as valuable to you.
Perhaps you will create additional value by mixing in Spring Batch if you need to process a lot of data.
But as I understand your current demand starting with just a RESTTemplate should do for the moment. Starting small will not prevent you from switching to Spring Integration later on.
Have a look at the various tutorials and guides provided by the Spring Boot project. There is even an example for Spring Integration.
I am developing web application, also in my product we are also providing financial-non financial mobile services.
Going in details.
In my web application, there is nothing like maintaining flows step by step , simple all CRUD operations and currently we are using Spring MVC which fits to our requirement but for mobile based services, we are providing like message bus support to exchange piggy back information between client and server and we have custom code to implement the solution.
Also our mobile based services need to be exposed over different protocols like SOAP,REST along with need of decoupling of communication packets from services.
All above problems we solved using SPRING MVC only.
My Question is
Is it worth to use Spring Integration framework to replace custom code solution to implement message bus with Spring Integration and if so, what will be the flow for my web application?
If I am using Spring Integration for my web application, how it will render HTTP request to SI?
Is Spring Integration is right choice for any standalone web based application?
Spring Integration is modeled on the Enterprise Integration Patterns and can be best thought of as support Message Driven Architecture. Spring MVC's history and origins is in providing a solution for the MVC pattern akin to Struts, exposing Models and Controlling Views, supported by Services, primarily in a linear fashion. One of the cores of Spring MVC was allowing the dynamic population of a Model that would be accessed by a JSP page (View). All of these things being Web App orientated and ending their.
With the evolution of services (Web, RESTful), Spring MVC has filled a gap and continually expanded to support HTTP access to services, though this is an expansion of its duties, rather than first origins. Meanwhile, Spring Integration was designed with the view of handling Messages and a messages interaction with services, independent of the protocol that it was accessed on. To enable different protocols, different endpoints are available to expose the same service. For example, I can have my crud services built in a POJO, exposed through a Service Activator, and now available to a number of different protocols including REST via HTTP, WebServices, Twitter, XMPP chat services, RMI, TCP, etc. etc.
in short, Spring MVC == HTTP access, Spring Integration == Message access (from HTTP, File, DB, etc.)
to expose a service via HTTP in Spring Integration, use the HTTP endpoints. Typically in a Request/Response (say a Read from a database) you'll want to use the <int-http:inbound-gateway/> and it would look something like this;
<int-http:inbound-gateway request-channel="request.channel" reply-channel="reply.channel"
path="/myService" supported-methods="GET"/>
<int:channel id="request.channel"/>
<int:service-activator input-channel="request.channel" ref="myService"/>
<int:channel id="output.channel"/>
(a key point to remember to is the following...
<bean class="org.springframework.integration.http.inbound.UriPathHandlerMapping"/>
this helps map the path attribute of the inbound-gateway to the servletdispatcher)
im trying to understand where WSDL's fit in, in a typical web service backend application. i am coming from a Spring background and in my experience so far, in Spring, each url request gets mapped to a specific controller class via a dispate servlet running in the web container. you can specify which url matches a given controller via xml config or from annotations.
is using a WSDL the same thing as using an xml config file to map url requests to java objects?
Thanks in advance. im moving from Spring to standard j2ee/EJB3.
WSDL is just a description of Web Service interface, most Web Service systems generate those descriptions on fly like for example when you create asmx web services you can generate WSDL on fly by typing http://yourhost/yourwebcontext/yourwebservicename.asmx?wsdl and it will return you the description of that web service. Then you can use a tools that generate stub proxies for coding using those descriptions automatically, for example in Visual Studio when you add an Web Service Reference those operations are done automatically
No, WSDLs are not like a dispatch servlet.
A WSDL file is a description of a web service (SOAP, REST, etc.). A WSDL can (theoretically) be used by anyone to generate executable code which consumes the web service described by that WSDL.
From the WSDL tag info:
"WSDL" stands for "Web Services Description Language." It is an XML language used to describe a web service to code that wishes to consume it. It describes the messages sent and received, the possible faults, and the communication and security requirements.
From WSDL Essentials:
In a nutshell, WSDL represents a contract between the service requestor and the service provider, in much the same way that a Java interface represents a contract between client code and the actual Java object. The crucial difference is that WSDL is platform- and language-independent and is used primarily (although not exclusively) to describe SOAP services.
Using WSDL, a client can locate a web service and invoke any of its publicly available functions. With WSDL-aware tools, you can also automate this process, enabling applications to easily integrate new services with little or no manual code. WSDL therefore represents a cornerstone of the web service architecture, because it provides a common language for describing services and a platform for automatically integrating those services.