This is a step-by-step guide to create a "contract-first" web service with Apache CXF. It's a lot easier than doing the same thing with Spring-WS. The project uses standard Maven directory layout. Define the data types ( src/main/resources/hello.xsd ): <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/200... Define the service ( src/main/resources/hello.wsdl ): <?xml version='1.1' encoding='UTF-8'?> <wsdl:de... Create pom.xml : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.... Generate jaxb bindings: $ mvn generate-sources Code the web service ( src/main/java/com/example/cxfdemo/HelloPortImpl.java ): package com.example.cxfdemo; import javax.j... Declare the CXF servlet in web.xml ( src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app... Wire up the web service implementation ( src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... Build the WAR: $ mvn clean package After the webapp is deployed (Tomcat running on port 8080), the web service (WSDL) is available via...

After a user resets a password, I want to force the user to change the password before she gets access to secured content. This is usually done with a servlet filter. But with Spring MVC, you can also use a HandlerInterceptor . According to Spring JavaDoc: HandlerInterceptor is basically similar to a Servlet 2.3 Filter, but in contrast to the latter it just allows custom pre-processing with the option of prohibiting the execution of the handler itself, and custom post-processing. Filters are more powerful, for example they allow for exchanging the request and response objects that are handed down the chain. Note that a filter gets configured in web.xml, a HandlerInterceptor in the application context. As a basic guideline, fine-grained handler-related preprocessing tasks are candidates...

Create a jax-ws web service with Spring, Apache CXF and Maven. Create the pom.xml : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... Create the web service interface ( src/main/java/jaxws/JaxwsHello.java ): package jaxws; import javax.jws.WebService;... Implement the web service ( src/main/java/jaxws/JaxwsHelloImpl.java ): package jaxws; import javax.jws.WebService;... Create src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... Register the CXF servlet in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app... Build: mvn package The resulting WAR file can be deployed to any servlet container (for example, Tomcat).

This is probably the easiest way to create a web service in JAX-WS. There are no external dependencies other than Java EE. Assuming that you build the web service as a webapp (say jaxws-example.war), the pom.xml can be as simple as: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... You can implement and deploy the web service in 3 easy steps: Code the service as a POJO (annotate class to expose it as a web service) package jaxws; import javax.jws.WebMethod; ... Declare the POJO as a servlet in WEB-INF/web.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app... Build the webapp, and deploy the resulting war: mvn package The only catch is, this only works for a Java EE 5+ compliant container such as WebLogic or JBoss. It does not work for a simple servlet...

This example gets the annotation attributes of of a web service client generated by JAX-WS RI. The generated web service client looks like this: import javax.xml.ws.Service; import javax.xml.w... This is how to get the attributes for annotation @WebServiceClient : WebServiceClient wsc = MyTestWebService.class.getA... Note that even though name , targetNamespace and wsdlLocation are attributes, you get them using a method call. Also, annotations are available at runtime only when they have RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME .

Spring MVC 3.1 can send either JSON or HTML response on the same URL, depending on the type of response requested. With this mechanism, a page can be sent when directly requested from a link, but a JSON response can be sent in response to an AJAX request. This is the controller code: package com.example; import java.util.Map; ... In the above example, JSON response will be sent when the HTTP request contains header "Accept: application/json". HTML response will be sent then the header is "Accept: */*", or "Accept: text/html", or anything else. You can add a limitation that the HTML response does not produce "application/json". But then the question is which response will be sent when the HTTP header is "Accept: */*"? Both methods will...

This is a simple JSP custom tags library with tag body. Just like the JSF counterpart , it splits a string and repeats the body for each word, i.e., with this markup: <%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix... output: <html> <body> <p>Hello Tigger!</p> <p>H... With Maven, this is the directory structure: ./src ./src/main ./src/main/resources ./s... There are three files to write: pom.xml : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... src/main/java/tagdemo/IterateTag.java : package tagdemo; import java.io.IOException... src/main/resources/META-INF/demotag.tld : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DO... Build with: mvn clean install To use it as a dependency in other Maven projects: <dependency> <groupId>tag-demo</groupId> ...

A JSON response is auto-magically returned when you add the @ResponseBody annotation to the return value of a @RequestMapping annotated method: import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; ... For magic to happen, you must: Add annotation-driven to the org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet config xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... Put Jackson jar files on CLASSPATH (i.e., under WEB-INF/lib ), which includes jackson-core-asl-1.6.4.jar and jackson-mapper-asl-1.6.4.jar .

Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used. Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric... and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ui:comp... Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack . You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context! This is the corrected implementation: package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep...

You can add custom implicit variables to JSF pages by using a custom EL resolver, in two simple steps: Write an ELResolver class to resolve the variable Add the ELResolver to faces-config.xml Starting from the Maven Hello World example: Add faces API and EL dependencies to pom.xml : <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>o... Add a simple greeter class ( src/main/java/com/example/Greeter.java ): package com.example; public class Greeter {... Add our custom EL resolver ( src/main/java/com/example/ELResolver.java ): package com.example; import java.util.Itera... Add the custom EL resolver to src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... Build JAR with mvn package Drop the JAR into WEB-INF/lib of a webapp and test the new EL with: <h:outputText value="#{Greeter.sayHi('Mike')}"/> Fixed: the setValue method used to throw an exception, which is wrong. @Override public void setValue(ELContext ctx, O......