[Axis2] Re: User guide examples are broken

[Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>]

deepal,

Can you please confirm that these problems are fixed in RC1?

thanks,
dims

On 3/26/07, Stadelmann Josef <jo...@winterthur.ch> wrote:
>
>
> My comment ++>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Tom van den Berge [mailto:tom.vandenberge@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 13:44
> An: axis-user@ws.apache.org
> Betreff: User guide examples are broken
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Axis, and I'm trying to get the examples in the user guide
> working. Unfortunately, they are broken.
>
> Building and deploying the sample service (MyService.aar) as explained in
> section "Installing and testing client code" seems to work fine.
>
> But running the client as explained fails:   axis2
> org.apache.axis2.axis2userguide.Client results in
>  "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/axis2/axis2userguide/Client".
>
> ++> use an IDE to launch your Client code. IDE's such as NetBeans or Eclips
> gives you some burden to learn how to use it.
> But otherwhise they manage many of the niffty tricky Classpath settings
> required to run your java code. So, are you able to build and debug the
> SOAPClient from userguide?
>
> Then I tried the approach as explained in the README.txt in the userguide
> directory.  Deploying the service using "axis2server.bat" fails with the
> following stacktrace:
>
> "org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentException:
> Processing Operations Modules logging module is invalid or has not been
> deployed; nested exception is:"
>
> ++> copy from
> C:\axis2-1.1\repository\modules\saple-logging.mar to
> C:\Tomcat-5-5\webapps\axis2\WEB-INF\modules\logging.mar
>  then stop Tomcat; goto  C:\Tomcat-5-5\logs and clear the log files. Then
> resatrt Tomcat; and after a short period watch
> C:\Tomcat-5-5\logs\stdout_nnnnnn.log; you should now see
> that logging was deployed
>
> But since the deployment I mentioned first was successful
> (http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/listServices nicely
> lists the "MyService" service as Active) , this shouldn't be a big problem.
> So I tried running the sample client against this service deployment:
> "ant run.client.blocking", resulting in:
>
> ++> which sample client did you use?
>
> "[java] org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentException:
> Processing Operations Modules logging module is invalid or has not been
> deployed; nested exception is:" <<huge stack trace following>>
>
> ++> make sure that logging.mar was deployed corectly (see above)
>
> I became a bit frustrated here :(
> Then I found a number of bug reports, raising very similar issues:
>
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-2040
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-1815
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-1700
>
>
> Two of them are still open, and one of them is resolved. I've tried today's
> (21 March) snapshot, but if fails compiling since it can't find
> org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement
> , when running "ant run.client.blocking
> ".
>
> ++> I agee with you, some developers have a large amount of open bugs to
> fix.
>
>
> Then I followed the helpful advise of another user experiencing similar
> problems (
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/axis-dev@ws.apache.org/msg26819.html).
> This allowed me to successfully deploy the "MyServiceWithModule.aar"
>  but I really don't know if I need this service. What's the difference
> between MyService and MyServiceWithModule, and which one is the client
> application using?
>
> ++> look at the different service code. you want see a differences in java
> code. but then look at each service.xml and study the difference. You will
> see a few differences.
>
> 1. the name of the service is different; even if you would deploy the exact
> same java class you can refere to it by a different service name, given in
> service.xml
>
> 2. in service.xml the <parameter name="ServiceClass"
> locked="false">userguide.example1.MyService</parameter> is always different
>
> 3,. with .1 and .2 with have now a mapping from a service name to class
>
> 4. if your service likes to engage a module
>
> - <service name="MyServiceWithModule">
>
>
>   <description>This is a sample Web Service with a logging module
> engaged.</description>
>
>   <module ref="logging" />  so the logging.mar gets referenced here
>
> 5. Your client references the wanted service by an end point reference
> (toEpr) such as      private static String toEpr =
> http://alpha1:8080/axis2/rest/MyService;
>  and again, to which class MyService goes is stated in the service.xml file
> deployed with the MyService.aar for example.
>
> Still, this did not result in a working client application.
>
> Can somebody explain to me, in detail, how to get the user guide (version
> 1.1.1) example working?
>
> ++> I hope it helps a bit, but FLEXIBILITY such as offered with Axis2 has
> it's price in learning how to configure the system. OK, I agree, an
> out-of-box-working-example, would be good.
> BTW: what IDE are you using to develop your code. Did you attempt to use
> debugging technics and single step through axis2 client and service
> examples. Do so, you learn a lot.
>
> Or even better, can somebody make sure that the user guide examples work out
> of the box? For people who are new to a technology (like myself to Axis2),
> simple tutorials and samples are extremely valuable. Not working examples
> are extremely frustrating, and quickly result in loss of confidence in the
> technology; "If they can't even get the examples working....."
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> Regards ++> Josef
>


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