How not to advertise WSDL?

[Steve Sobol <sj...@JustThe.net>]

I just recently installed Axis and am impressed with it. JWS, in particular, is 
a great idea, and I expect it to be a big timesaver during the early stages of 
web service development.

I'm planning on creating some services, however, that I don't want to 
advertise. Is there any way to prevent http://www.some.url/some.webservice?wsdl 
from spitting out the WSDL? Is there any way to prevent someone going to 
/some.webservice in a browser from seeing "This is a web service"? And is there 
some way to prevent Axis from displaying the service's descriptor in the list 
of deployed services?

I know I can achieve these goals by hacking the source code. :> What I need to 
know is if there is a way to accomplish any or all of them WITHOUT modifying 
the source.

Thanks in advance,
   Steve

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Re: How not to advertise WSDL?

[QM <qm...@brandxdev.net>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:33:42PM -0800, Steve Sobol wrote:
: I'm planning on creating some services, however, that I don't want to 
: advertise. Is there any way to prevent 
: http://www.some.url/some.webservice?wsdl from spitting out the WSDL?


In the server-side deployment descriptor (server-config.wsdd) set an
empty <wsdlfile> element for that service:

	<service ...>
		<wsdlfile/>
	</service ...>

-QM

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Re: How not to advertise WSDL?

["Tim K. (Gmane)" <tk...@ugcs.net>]

I asked the same question a while back in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.webservices.axis.user/26811

Apparently it is not possible. Maybe things have changed since then.

Tim


Steve Sobol wrote:
> I just recently installed Axis and am impressed with it. JWS, in 
> particular, is a great idea, and I expect it to be a big timesaver 
> during the early stages of web service development.
> 
> I'm planning on creating some services, however, that I don't want to 
> advertise. Is there any way to prevent 
> http://www.some.url/some.webservice?wsdl from spitting out the WSDL? Is 
> there any way to prevent someone going to /some.webservice in a browser 
> from seeing "This is a web service"? And is there some way to prevent 
> Axis from displaying the service's descriptor in the list of deployed 
> services?
> 
> I know I can achieve these goals by hacking the source code. :> What I 
> need to know is if there is a way to accomplish any or all of them 
> WITHOUT modifying the source.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>   Steve
>