Charitha's Web Log

Do you want to make use of the powerful QOS features of Axis2 with your legacy Axis1 applications? Yes it is possible with WSO2 Web services application server. It allows easy deployment of any Apache Axis1-based Web service and engage advanced WS-* services, such as WS-RM and WS-Policy in front of legacy Axis1 services. Lets see how we can use this cool feature. Step 1 Write the service impl class. package org.wso2.wsas.service; public class Calculator{ public int addition(int x, int y){ return x+y; } public int multiplication(int a, int b){ return a*b; } public int subtraction(int c, int d){ return c-d; } public double division(double m, double n){ return m/n; } } Compile and make a jar with the above class. Suppose it is Axis1resources.jar Step 2 Write the deployment descriptor (*.wsdd) for your service impl class and save it as calculator.wsdd <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/

I wasn't much aware of HTTP compression though I heard the term often. Thanks to a nice article written by Martin Brown, I was able to get a basic understanding as well as how to get Apache and IIS servers configured to use HTTP compression. HTTP compression is an mechanism to utilize the available bandwidth effectively. HTTP protocol data is compressed before it is sent from the server. No specific configuration is required at the client side and server configuration is also relatively simple. If you are involved in web performance testing, It would be worthwhile to get some knowledge on HTTP compression.

We wanted to use our own stax parser implementation in a web application deployed on Weblogic 9.2. The user guides and BEA forums suggested two approaches. 1. Using weblogic.xml web application deployment descriptor with <prefer-web-inf-classes> element. Setting this to true allows a Web application to use our own version of a third-party class 2. Using filtering classloader Here we are allowed to explicitly specify packages which are required to be loaded from the application. These packages can be listed in weblogic-application.xml I tried both approaches separately in order to use wstx-asl-3.2.1.jar shipped with our application instead of loading weblogic stax parser. Unfortunately, both class loading mechanisms failed to pick up our stax parser :( We even tried to hack weblogic.jar by editing property files which tightly map the parser interface to the impl*. We extracted weblogic.jar and edited the stax impl class entries (i.e:- com.ctc.wstx.sax.WstxSAXParserFactory) o

WSO2 has been chosen as a cool vendor in web technologies by Gartner. More information can be found at Pauls' blog

Apache Axis2 provides session handling capability using 4 session scopes; request, soapsession, transport and application. I have already blogged about application scope a few months ago. Axis2 transportsession uses transport level session management techniques to manage sessions of a Web service. Life time of a session is governed by the underlined transport, not by Axis2 itself. If a service is deployed in a transportsession scope, then, there will be service instances for each of the transport session. You can read my recent Knowledge base post on how to manage sessions with transport session scope here at wso2 oxygen tank.