Spring Web Services

Exercise: Todo SOAP Service (Code-first)

The objective of this exercise is to implement a SOAP-based todo web service using Spring Boot and Apache CXF.

Assignment

1. Preparation
   • Remove the client artifacts from the todo application
   • Add the org.apache.cxf:cxf-spring-boot-starter-jaxws dependency to the Maven project
2. Service implementation
   • Annotate the TodoListImpl class as web service using JAX-WS annotations
   • Annotate the methods as web service operations using appropriate names
   • Define the removeTodo method as oneway operation
   • Make the TodoNotFoundException a JAX-WS compatible exception
3. Configuration (see Apache CXF documentation)
   • Implement the configuration class WebServiceConfig with a bean method that returns an endpoint of the published TodoListService class
   • Define the cxf.path application property as /soap to customize the URL pattern of the CXFServlet
4. Testing
   • Verify the published WSDL document at http://localhost:8080/soap/todolist?wsdl
   • Use the SoapUI utility to send SOAP requests to the web service

Solution