How to create a Confluence SOAP Component in 5 Minutes

You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented. In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context. Prerequisites Maven >=2 JDK >= 5 Confluence Wiki >= 3.0 (for a quick installation guide take a look at this article) SoapUI for Testing ...

October 24, 2010 · 7 min · 1309 words · Micha Kops

Create a SOAP client using the JAX-WS Maven Plugin

Having written the article “How to build a Confluence SOAP client in 5 minutes” some readers asked me for some more information and help using the JAX-WS plugin that I mentioned in the article instead of the Axis plugin – so here we go ;) Steps Create a simple maven project first using archetype:create or archetype:generate mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.hascode.jaxws -DartifactId=soap-tutorial We get a pom.xml like this: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.hascode.jaxws</groupId> <artifactId>soap-tutorial</artifactId> <version>0.1</version> </project> ...

April 8, 2010 · 3 min · 530 words · Micha Kops

How to build a Confluence SOAP client in 5 minutes

In this tutorial we are going to build a SOAP client for the popular Confluence Wiki in about five minutes. The client is going to receive rendered HTML Markup from a specified Confluence Page. Prerequisites A running Confluence Installation with SOAP API enabled – if you don’t already have one take a look at this article or if you’ve got the Atlassian Plugin SDK installed .. start a standalone instance using atlas-run-standalone .. Maven – never go without it ;) Five minutes of your life time .. ...

March 28, 2010 · 3 min · 537 words · Micha Kops