I'm adding a CXF interface to my Axis2 web application, and was wondering if it was possible to use all the generated Axis2 beans instead of having 2 sets.
Right now, I've maneuvered the project enough to the point that it compiles (using maven), but when starting it up in tomcat I get a lot of these errors:
#XmlAttribute/#XmlValue need to reference a Java type that maps to text in XML.
This error comes from the Axis2 beans, and I'm guessing it's due to the fact that Axis2 adds #XmlAttribute annotations in its generated sources. My question is, is there an easier way to use Axis2 beans with CXF? Is it even possible? Would commenting out the #XmlAttribute lines before compilation fix my problem?
Adding a maven-antrun-plugin task to find and replace #Xml with //#Xml seemed to work. I haven't tested the independent services, but they are both running without errors. If anyone has a better solution, I'm all ears. Mine seems a little hacky.
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I am creating a library using spring-boot (v2.1.6.RELEASE) as a starter project that will facilitate as base extension jar responsible for configuring and starting up some of the components based on client project properties file.
The issue I am facing is that if the client project's SpringBoot Application class contains the same package path as library everything works like charm! but when client project contains different package path and includes ComponentScan, it is not able to load or start components from the library.
Did anyone encounter this issue? how to make client application to auto-configure some of the components from library jar?
Note: I am following the library creation example from here: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-custom-starter
There are many things that can go wrong here, without seeing relevant parts of actual code its hard to tell something concrete. Out of my head, here are a couple of points for consideration that can hopefully lead to the solution:
Since we use starters in our applications (and sometimes people use explicit component scanning in there spring applications) and this obviously works, probably the issue is with the starter module itself. Don't think that the fact that the component scan is used alone prevents the starter from being loaded ;)
Make sure the starter is a: regular library and not packaged as a spring boot application (read you don't use spring boot plugin) and have <packaging>jar</packaging> in your pom.xml or whatever you use to build.
Make sure you have: src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories file
(case sensitive and everything)
Make sure that this spring.factories file indeed contains a valid reference on your configuration (java class annotated with #Configuration). If you use component scanning in the same package, it will find and load this configuration even without spring factories, in this case, its just kind of another portion of your code just packaged as a separate jar. So this looks especially "suspicious" to me.
Make sure that #Configuration doesn't have #Conditional-something - maybe this condition is not obeyed and the configuration doesn't start. For debugging purposes maybe you even should remove these #Conditional annotations just to ensure that the Configuration starts. You can also provide some logging inside the #Configuration class, like: "loading my cool library".
We are planning on migrating our legacy Java EE application from an ant build to a maven build. Currently, each of our EJBs has its own META-INF/ejb-jar.xml.
Maven only expects one ejb-jar.xml per EJB module. So when I build none of these EJBs are identified as needing to go through ejbc.
I'd really prefer not to have to combine all of these ejb-jar.xml's (and also weblogic specific .xml's) down into a single descriptor as there are > 50 and this would cause a hot mess. I also don't want to break down each of these EJBs down into separate EJB modules as this is also going to cause a small nightmare.
Question: Does anyone know a (hopefully elegant) way to still have maven build all my EJBs with their own ejb-jar.xml other than the two (not elegant) ways above?
We ended up just merging them down into a single descriptor manually. This avoided any weird ant task like solutions as well as shattering the project into hundreds of pieces. The goal will be to migrate as many beans to EJB 3.0 annotated style as possible as they are touched.
Ran into an interesting issue too where EJB 2.0 ejb-jar.xml caused annotations not to fire. Simply fixed by updating the now merged descriptor to 3.0. This exposed on single change on the DTD side having to do with MDBs that was easily fixed with some regular expression replace magic.
I started learning spring today and i have a question regarding what happens to the annotations when java files with annotations is compiled ?.
The reason i am asking this is because of the fundamental difference i see when we choose to use the xml approach vs the annotations approach , and what i think is the philosophy of spring. The way i understand is spring says that all your java classes can be simple pojo's and all the spring related config should be kept independent (Like xml file.)
In case of developing spring application using xml *.java files have no idea about spring container and are compiled in to .class without any spring related dependencies.
But now when we annotate the .java file and the file is compiled the compiled file now has all spring related dependencies hard baked in to it and no longer are your classes simple pojo's.
Is this correct ? I am not sure if i am missing some thing here.
Annotations can be considered as metadata of a class or its element (method, field, local variable...). When you put annotation, you don't implement any behaviour. You just give additional info on an element.
That way, Spring, which is in charge of instanciating its bean can collect the info with reflection (see also this site) and process it.
To conclude, your Spring beans still remain POJO and there is no difference with the XML way (...from that point of view) since Spring gets from annotations the information it would have got from XML .
I think you are right and your question is justifiable, that's the way how I think about it too.
Not only compiled code but also dependency on spring jars bother me. Once you use this annotations your resulting jar depends on spring library.
It's reasonable to store beans in model according to DDD but spring is some kind of infrastructure layer so I didn't like the dependency.
Even if you would use XML, it's useful for few placed to use attributes. E.g. #Required attribute which is useful to verify that linked bean was injected. So, I've decide to use constructor dependency injection to omit this attribute, see my article. I completely leave out the dependency on spring in the code.
You can probably find such mind hook for many annotation you want/force to use.
You can use annotations only for your configuration classes, without marking them actual bean classes. In such scenario if you not use spring you just not load configuration classes.
I have a large spring project, using xml configuration. I'm looking for a quick way to verify changes to the xml configuration.
I can load the whole project locally - the problem is this takes more than 5 minutes, loads a huge amount of data.
My XML editor catches XML formatting errors.
I'm looking for something intermediate - to catch obvious problems like references to beans that aren't defined, or calling constructors with the wrong arguments. Is there a quick way to do this, without having to actually invoke all the constructors and bring up the whole environment?
I'm building with Maven and editing with Eclipse, although my question isn't specific to either.
Since you already use Eclipse, you could try Spring Tool Suite (comes either standalone or as an add-on). It's essentially Eclipse with extra Spring-specific features, like Beans Validator. I'm not sure how thorough the validation is, but it should catch most configuration problems.
It's maintained by SpringSource so its integration with Spring "just works" and it's guaranteed not be more or less in sync with Spring Framework's release cycle.
Beanoh :
http://beanoh.org/overview.html#Verify
this project does exactly what I'm looking for. Verify obvious problems with spring config, but without the overhead of initializing everything.
You can use a Spring testing support to integration test your Spring configuration. However if the loading of the context is taking 5 mins, then the tests will also take the same amount of time. Spring does cache the context so if you have multiple tests using the same set of Spring contexts, then once cached the tests should be very quick.
I can suggest a few ways to more efficiently test your configuration:
Organize your project in modules, with each module being responsible for its own Spring configuration - this way, each module can be independently developed and tested.
If you have a modular structure, the testing can be more localized by mocking out the dependent modules, again this is for speed.
I built a simple Spring3, Hibernate3/(JPA2), RESTful service, hosted on Tomcat6, that uses JAXB2 to marshal the results. (It uses annotated pojos.) I needed to use specific namespace prefixes, so I wrote a custom com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.NamespacePrefixMapper. I included the JAXB2 RI jars with my application and everything worked fine.
Then someone said that's great, we need to host it under WebLogic 11g (10.3.3) too. No problem, I created the special weblogic deployment descriptors to prefer the application jars, renamed my persistence.xml, and wrapped the WAR in an EAR with the JPA2 jars. It worked great, almost.
Unfortunately, our WebLogic server runs a custom security realm that also uses JAXB and causes conflicts with my application. So I dropped the JAXB jars from the app and it runs fine in WebLogic. Of course it no longer runs under Tomcat unless I add the JAXB jars to Tomcat. I'd like to avoid that.
So my questions... I've read quite a few posts on stackoverflow that contain a lot of opinions/disagreements regarding the use of the sun "internal" JAXB2 implementation vs. packaging the RI with your app. Is there not yet a clean solution to this problem? Does my stack support another way to custom map my namespace prefixes without including the JAXB2 RI? Can I safely use the Java6 "internal" JAXB NamespacePrefixMapper, or will that come and go with various Java releases? Does Spring3 offer another solution? What's the true story on the Java6 JAXB2 implementation? Is it only there for Sun's (Oracle's) internal use?
Thanks.
As mentioned in the comments, I'll summarise what is mentioned in http://www.func.nl/community/knowledgebase/customize-namespace-prefix-when-marshalling-jaxb.
Note: I haven't tried this myself, so it may not work.
Essentially, you configure the JAXB marshaller to use an XMLStreamWriter when marshalling, and you configure that to map prefixes, e.g.
XMLStreamWriter xmlStreamWriter = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance().createXMLStreamWriter(writer);
xmlStreamWriter.setPrefix("func", "http://www.func.nl");
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(object.getClass());
Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
marshaller.marshal(object, xmlStreamWriter);
The idea is that if JAXB hasn't been given a prefix mapper, then it'll leave it up to the XMLStreamWriter to handle the prefixes, and by doing the above, you're telling it how to do it.
Again: I'm just repeating the content from the website that's blocked from your network, so I take no credit for it being right, and no blame for it being wrong.
The EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) will use the namespace prefixes as declared in the #XmlSchema annotation.
For more information see:
How to customize namespace prefixes on Jersey(JAX-WS)
Define Spring JAXB namespaces without using NamespacePrefixMapper