Soap

Sometimes when accessing SOAP APIs, our SOAP client needs to sign the request. How this can be achieved using Spring Boot’s WebserviceTemplate within a few steps is the scope of this short article. This snippet only deals with the client side not with the security configuration on the server side. Also it assumes, that you have already set up your keystore/truststore and that you’re loading these with your Spring Boot application’s startup without errors. ...

There is a new testing framework out there called Karate that is build on top of the popular Cucumber framework. Karate makes it easy to script interactions with out web-services under test and verify the results. In addition it offers us a lot of useful features like parallelization, script/feature re-use, data-tables, JsonPath and XPath support, gherkin syntax, switchable staging-configurations and many others. In the following tutorial we’ll be writing different scenarios and features for a real-world RESTful web-service to demonstrate some of its features. ...

Using the contract-first approach to define a web service offers some advantages in contrast to the code-first approach. In the following tutorial we’re going to take a look at some details of this approach and we’re going to implement a real SOAP service using JAX-WS, Maven and the Eclipse IDE. Finally we’re going to run our service implementation on an embedded Jetty instance and we’re going to take a look at soapUI and how to test our service using this neat tool. ...

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 ...

It is possible to create SOAP webservices with only a few lines of code using the JAX-WS annotations. In a productivity environment you might prefer using contract-first instead of code-first to create your webservice but for now we’re going to use the fast method and that means code-first and annotations olé! Creating the SOAP Service Create a class SampleService with two public methods Annotate this class with @WebService (javax.jws.WebService) – now all public methods of this class are exported for our SOAP service To change the name of an exported method, annotate the method with @WebMethod(operationName = “theDesiredName”) (javax.jws.WebMethod) Finally the service class could look like this package com.hascode.tutorial.soap; import javax.jws.WebMethod; import javax.jws.WebService; @WebService public class SampleService { @WebMethod(operationName = "getInfo") public String getInformation() { return "hasCode.com"; } public String doubleString(String inString) { return inString + inString; } } ...

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> ...

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 .. ...

Remote Debug a Pod’s Java Process Simple steps for remote debugging a Java process running on a k8 pod: Edit deployment and add the following parameters to the Java start line: -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=127.0.0.1:5005 Also add the following port mapping at the section container → ports in the deployment: - containerPort: 5005 protocol: TCP Safe, wait for the new pods and then add a port forward for port 5005 for this pod: kubectl port-forward podname 5005 ...

Define and Configure Log Groups This allows to configure a group of loggers at the same time Define a log group named myaspect with two packages application.properties logging.group.myaspect=com.hascode.package1,com.hascode.package2 Configure the log group and set all loggers to level TRACE application.properties logging.level.myaspect=TRACE This is also possible as parameter on startup java -Dlogging.level.myaspect=TRACE myapp.jar Use JUnit 5 with Spring Boot Use newer versions of Surefire and Failsafe plugins: <properties> [..] <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>2.22.0</maven-failsafe-plugin.version> <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.22.0</maven-surefire-plugin.version> </properties> ...