How to deploy a war file using GlassFish

Before trying this out make sure you have installed GlassFish in your machine. Installation is just easy as downloading the zip archive from here and unzipping it to a desired location.

Creating a new domain

Open up a terminal, change directory to the GlassFish installation directory and run following.

bin/asadmin

This will enable you to use asadmin tool. Now execute the following command to create a new domain. after running this command you will probably have to give admin password and master password.

create-domain --adminport 5000 --profile developer --user admin domain2

Now open up another terminal and change directory to [glassfish-installation]/domains/ and you will see the newly created domain2 has appeared there.

Open up a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/. This will bring you the GlassFish GUI admin console. This is one place you can deploy your war file. But in this post I'm not much focusing on it, instead I will show you how to do this using the command line. But GUI lovers, for any consolation I have put some screenshots which you can follow if you prefer the GUI way.

In case you want to delete a domain use the following command.

delete-domain domain2

Starting the domain

To start domain2 run following command.

start-domain domain2

Deploying a war file

Use the following command to deploy your war file.

deploy --port 5000 --host localhost /home/pavithra/workspace/NewDemoService/WebServicesJaxWs/NewDemoService.war 

After deploying the war file I can access the WSDL file I want to access using the URL http://localhost:8080/NewDemoService/NewDemoService?WSDL

To change default 8080 (HTTP) port which specifies where the web application context roots are available for a Web browser to connect to, you can use the --instanceport parameter when creating the domain. See the following command.

create-domain --adminport 5000 --profile developer --user admin --instanceport 9000 domain2

Undeploying a war file

To undeploy NewDemoService.war file you need to use the following command. Note that here you don't have to use the full name but literal "NewDemoService".

undeploy --port 5000 --host localhost NewDemoService

Stopping a domain

To stop the domain "domain2" use the following command.

stop-domain domain2

After this if you try to deploy to this particular domain, it will complain.

Auto Deploy

To perform auto deploy, copy NewDemoService.war file in to [glassfish-installation-directory]/domains/domain2/autodeploy directory. If autodeploy succeeds, you will see NewDemoService.war_deployed has created. This will deploy your war file automatically.

Getting started with JAX-WS

JAX-WS stands for Java API for XML Web Services. It is a Java programming language API for creating web services and clients that communicate using XML. This post is a quick start for JAX-WS.

Prerequisites
GlassFish integrated with Eclipse.

Creating the JAX-WS Web Service

1. In Eclipse create a Dynamic Web Project called "com.eviac.blog.jaxwsproj". Make GlassFish as the Target Runtime.
   
2. Create a new class called "SampleWS" in the created project. This will be the implementation class of the web service.
   
   SampleWS.java

   package com.eviac.blog.jaxws.service;
   
   import javax.jws.WebMethod;
   import javax.jws.WebService;
   
   @WebService
   public class SampleWS {
   
    @WebMethod
    public int sum(int a, int b) {
     return a + b;
    }
   
    @WebMethod
    public int multiply(int a, int b) {
     return a * b;
    }
   
   }
   
   

3. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the project directory. Create a directory called wsdl inside WebContent/WEB-INF/. Use the following command to create web service artifacts. Make sure your JAVA_ HOME is set properly or this command will not work. Also make sure to build the project before running this command or it will complain class not found.

   wsgen -classpath build/classes/ -wsdl -r WebContent/WEB-INF/wsdl -s src -d build/classes/ com.eviac.blog.jaxws.service.SampleWS
   

   
4. Refresh the project to discover created artifacts. Open the created WSDL-file inside wsdl folder. Search for REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL and replace it with the web service URL: http://localhost:8080/com.eviac.blog.jaxwsproj/SampleWSService, and save the file.
   
   
   
5. Deploy the project in Glassfish by right-clicking the project, click Run As -> Run on Server and select the Glassfish server.
   
   

Creating the JAX-WS client

1. Create a Java project in eclipse called "com.eviac.blog.jaxwsclientproj". Open up a new terminal and go to the project root. Use the following command to generate the classes you need to access the web service. Here you will need to use the URL of the WSDL file.

   wsimport -s src -d bin http://localhost:8080/com.eviac.blog.jaxwsproj/SampleWSService?wsdl
   

   
2. Create a new class called "SampleWSClient" in the project.
   
   SampleWSClient.java

   package com.eviac.blog.jaxws.client;
   
   import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef;
   
   import com.eviac.blog.jaxws.service.SampleWS;
   import com.eviac.blog.jaxws.service.SampleWSService;
   
   public class SampleWSClient {
   
    @WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation = "http://localhost:8080/com.eviac.blog.jaxwsproj/SampleWSService?wsdl")
    private static SampleWSService Samplews;
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     SampleWSClient wsClient = new SampleWSClient();
     wsClient.run();
    }
   
    public void run() {
     Samplews = new SampleWSService();
     SampleWS port = Samplews.getSampleWSPort();
     System.out.println("multiplication Result= "+ port.multiply(10, 20));
     System.out.println("Addition Result= "+port.sum(10, 20));
    }
   
   }
   

3. Right click on the project and click on Run As -> Java Application. This will result following.

   multiplication Result= 200
   Addition Result= 30
   

Integrating GlassFish with Eclipse 3.7

This post will guide you to integrate GlassFish 3.0.1 with Eclipse 3.7.

1. Download the zip archive for GlassFish from here.
2. Unzip it using the following command.

   unzip glassfish-3.0.1.zip 
   

3. Move GlassFish installation directory to a more suitable place.

   sudo mv glassfishv3 /opt
   

4. Open Eclipse.
   Navigate to New -> Server and click on download additional server adapters link and install Oracle GlassFish server tools. Restart Eclipse, when the installation is finished.
   
   
   After restarting Eclipse, navigate to New -> server.
   
   Select GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3 (Java EE 6) and click next.
   
   Select a working JRE environment, select the installation path of your Glassfish application server and click next.
   
   In this screen keep the default settings and click next.
   
   In this screen it lets you select existing projects to be added to the newly configured server adapter, just click Finish.
   
   After a successful configuration, server adapter will be appeared in the servers tab. Start the server by right-clicking on it.