Pete,
Thank you for sharing your successes, so often we only hear the negative.
Lucuk, Pete wrote:
> Hi nb users, tomcat users, jax-ws users, Bobby, and Milan,
>
> Not a question, really some comments…..
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> - I have been trying to create and deploy webservices on a stand alone
> Tomcat 5.5.x server for some time now with NO success till now
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> - Recently I have completed the tutorial Building JAX-WS 2.0 Services
> with NetBeans 5.0 ( http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/jaxws20.html )
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> - the tutorial worked like a champ!, no issues or problems! I have
> tried other tutorials involving building web services using Netbeans
> 4.1/5 beta, Eclipse, JAX-RPC, Axis, and Tomcat and I could never get
> any of them to work correctly, this was definitely a pleasant change.
>
> - once I completed the above tutorial, I then installed the .war web
> service file in my own Tomcat 5.5.12 and run it and it too worked like
> a champ the first time!
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> Mind you I had to put all the JAX-WS jars from the lid dir in the
> Tomcat common/endorsed dir
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> - It is very cool that the JAX-WS stuff will work on Tomcat and not
> just Sun server
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> - JAX-WS is slick and easy as all getout to create/deploy
> webservices!, blows away AXIS hands down
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> - I also recently tried the Eclipse WTP project WebServices tutorials
> ( http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ ) and although the WTP GUI wizard
> was fairly slick it hanged when I tried to deploy it on Tomcat 5.5.12
> for some unknown reason, another failed tutorial.
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>
> Bottom line…….
>
> - thanks to everyone involved with JAX-WS 2.0, Netbeans, Tomcat, and
> Bobby and Milan (they wrote the tutorial)!
>
> - Netbeans, Tomcat, and now JAX-WS, will continue to be my development
> tools/platforms of choice!
>
> - thought I would share the above info with everyone to let others
> check it out for themselves
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- Doug