Chapter 20. Deploying WS-Addressing

Abstract

Apache CXF supports WS-Addressing for JAX-WS applications. This chapter explains how to deploy WS-Addressing in the Apache CXF runtime environment.

20.1. Introduction to WS-Addressing

Overview

WS-Addressing is a specification that allows services to communicate addressing information in a transport neutral way. It consists of two parts:

  • A structure for communicating a reference to a Web service endpoint
  • A set of Message Addressing Properties (MAP) that associate addressing information with a particular message

Supported specifications

Apache CXF supports both the WS-Addressing 2004/08 specification and the WS-Addressing 2005/03 specification.

Further information

For detailed information on WS-Addressing, see the 2004/08 submission at http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/.

20.2. WS-Addressing Interceptors

Overview

In Apache CXF, WS-Addressing functionality is implemented as interceptors. The Apache CXF runtime uses interceptors to intercept and work with the raw messages that are being sent and received. When a transport receives a message, it creates a message object and sends that message through an interceptor chain. If the WS-Addressing interceptors are added to the application’s interceptor chain, any WS-Addressing information included with a message is processed.

WS-Addressing Interceptors

The WS-Addressing implementation consists of two interceptors, as described in Table 20.1, “WS-Addressing Interceptors”.

Table 20.1. WS-Addressing Interceptors

InterceptorDescription

org.apache.cxf.ws.addressing.MAPAggregator

A logical interceptor responsible for aggregating the Message Addressing Properties (MAPs) for outgoing messages.

org.apache.cxf.ws.addressing.soap.MAPCodec

A protocol-specific interceptor responsible for encoding and decoding the Message Addressing Properties (MAPs) as SOAP headers.

20.3. Enabling WS-Addressing

Overview

To enable WS-Addressing the WS-Addressing interceptors must be added to the inbound and outbound interceptor chains. This is done in one of the following ways:

  • Apache CXF Features
  • RMAssertion and WS-Policy Framework
  • Using Policy Assertion in a WS-Addressing Feature

Adding WS-Addressing as a Feature

WS-Addressing can be enabled by adding the WS-Addressing feature to the client and the server configuration as shown in Example 20.1, “client.xml and Adding WS-Addressing Feature to Client Configuration” and Example 20.2, “server.xml and Adding WS-Addressing Feature to Server Configuration” respectively.

Example 20.1. client.xml and Adding WS-Addressing Feature to Client Configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
       xmlns:wsa="http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
          http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing
          http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/ws-addr-conf.xsd">

    <jaxws:client ...>
        <jaxws:features>
            <wsa:addressing/>
        </jaxws:features>
    </jaxws:client>
</beans>

Example 20.2. server.xml and Adding WS-Addressing Feature to Server Configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
       xmlns:wsa="http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <jaxws:endpoint ...>
        <jaxws:features>
            <wsa:addressing/>
        </jaxws:features>
    </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>

20.4. Configuring WS-Addressing Attributes

Overview

The Apache CXF WS-Addressing feature element is defined in the namespace http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing. It supports the two attributes described in Table 20.2, “WS-Addressing Attributes”.

Table 20.2. WS-Addressing Attributes

Attribute NameValue

allowDuplicates

A boolean that determines if duplicate MessageIDs are tolerated. The default setting is true.

usingAddressingAdvisory

A boolean that indicates if the presence of the UsingAddressing element in the WSDL is advisory only; that is, its absence does not prevent the encoding of WS-Addressing headers.

Configuring WS-Addressing attributes

Configure WS-Addressing attributes by adding the attribute and the value you want to set it to the WS-Addressing feature in your server or client configuration file. For example, the following configuration extract sets the allowDuplicates attribute to false on the server endpoint: 

<beans ... xmlns:wsa="http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing" ...>
    <jaxws:endpoint ...>
        <jaxws:features>
            <wsa:addressing allowDuplicates="false"/>
        </jaxws:features>
    </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>

Using a WS-Policy assertion embedded in a feature

In Example 20.3, “Using the Policies to Configure WS-Addressing” an addressing policy assertion to enable non-anonymous responses is embedded in the policies element.

Example 20.3. Using the Policies to Configure WS-Addressing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:wsa="http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing"
        xmlns:wsp="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/ws-policy"
        xmlns:policy="http://cxf.apache.org/policy-config"
        xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd"
        xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/ws-policy http://www.w3.org/2006/07/ws-policy.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/ws/addressing http://cxf.apache.org/schema/ws/addressing.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <jaxws:endpoint name="{http://cxf.apache.org/greeter_control}GreeterPort"
                    createdFromAPI="true">
        <jaxws:features>
            <policy:policies>
                <wsp:Policy xmlns:wsam="http://www.w3.org/2007/02/addressing/metadata">
                    <wsam:Addressing>
                        <wsp:Policy>
                            <wsam:NonAnonymousResponses/>
                        </wsp:Policy>
                    </wsam:Addressing>
                </wsp:Policy>
            <policy:policies>
        </jaxws:features>
    </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>