Chapter 3.  Server Side Integration Customization

JBossWS-CXF allows users to deploy their web service endpoints by simply providing their archives the same way they used to do with JBossWS-Native. However, it is possible to customize the JBossWS and CXF integration by incorporating a CXF configuration file to the endpoint deployment archive. The convention is the following:
  • The file name must be jbossws-cxf.xml
  • For POJO deployments it is located in WEB-INF directory
  • For EJB3 deployments it is located in META-INF directory
If the user does not provide their own CXF configuration file, the default one will be automatically generated during the runtime. For POJO deployments the generated jbossws-cxf.xml has the following content: 
 
<beans
  xmlns='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'
  xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
  xmlns:beans='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'
  xmlns:jaxws='http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws'
  xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws
  http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd'>

  <!-- one or more jaxws:endpoint POJO declarations -->
  <jaxws:endpoint
    id='POJOEndpoint'
    address='http://localhost:8080/pojo_endpoint_archive_name'  
    implementor='my.package.POJOEndpointImpl'>
    <jaxws:invoker>
      <bean class='org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.InvokerJSE'/>
    </jaxws:invoker>
  </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>
For EJB3 deployments the generated jbossws-cxf.xml has the following content: 
 
<beans
  xmlns='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'
  xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
  xmlns:beans='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'
  xmlns:jaxws='http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws'
  xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws
  http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd'>

  <!-- one or more jaxws:endpoint EJB3 declarations -->
  <jaxws:endpoint
    id='EJB3Endpoint'
    address='http://localhost:8080/ejb3_endpoint_archive_name'  
    implementor='my.package.EJB3EndpointImpl'>
    <jaxws:invoker>
      <bean class='org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.InvokerEJB3'/>
    </jaxws:invoker>
  </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>
Providing custom CXF configuration to the endpoint deployment is useful in cases when users want to use features that are not part of standard JAX-WS specification but CXF still implements them. See Chapter 8, WS-Reliable Messaging Tutorial for more information. We provide custom CXF endpoint configuration there to turn on WS-RM feature for the endpoint.

Note

When the user incorporates their own CXF configuration to the endpoint archive they must reference either org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.InvokerJSE or the org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.InvokerEJB3 JAX-WS invoker bean there for each JAX-WS endpoint.