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Question

I have two legacy web services running on WebSphere 8.5.5.
Call them serviceOne and serviceTwo. ServiceOne is invoking serviceTwo.
To do that, serviceOne ear contains the serviceTwo client.
We have a requirement to authenticate serviceTwo. We are trying to use PolicySets/Bindings to configure the username and password and have the serviceTwoClient pass them to the serviceTwo provider.
The way they are packaged right now is:
-- serviceOne.ear
|
-- serviceOneEJB.jar
| |
| -- serviceTwoClient.jar
-- serviceOneWeb.war
The problem we have is with packaging the serviceOne ear in order for WebSphere to detect the serviceTwo client within it and list it under Services -> Client Providers so we can attach the PolicySet.
With the current packaging scheme, the serviceTwo client is not detected.
So I tried pulling the serviceTwoClient.jar at the root level of the ear file. This doesn't help, the serviceTwo client is not listed under Client Providers.
Then I tried to package the serviceTwo client as a war file and pack it at the top level of the ear. This helps, the client gets listed in the client providers on the admin console; but I have two alternatives:
- leave the old jar file packed with the serviceOneEJB. In this case the service invocation works fine but the policyBindings do not send the auth information with the request. I guess that's because the actual call goes through the jar and does not invoke the war, and the policyBinding is not invoked.
- remove the old jar from the serviceOneEJB.jar. In this case the service call fails because application context is not loaded properly (is actually null).
Any help/ideas are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

so after some more digging I found the solution; add the following to the web.xml of the serviceOneWeb app:
<service-ref>
<service-ref-name>serviceTwo_Service</service-ref-name>
<service-interface>ServiceTwo class name</service-interface>
<wsdl-file>ServiceTwo.wsdl</wsdl-file>
<service-qname xmlns:pfx="service_two_ url">pfx:ServiceTwo</service-qname>
<port-component-ref>
<service-endpoint-interface>ServiceTwoClient_Service class</service-endpoint-interface>
<enable-mtom>false</enable-mtom>
</port-component-ref>
</service-ref>
<security-constraint>
<display-name>SERVICE_ACCESS</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>SERVICE_URLS</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>HEAD</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>SERVICE_TWO_USER</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>SERVICE_TWO_USER</role-name>
</security-role>