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Creating Web Services Applications with IntelliJ IDEA

Creating Web Services Applications

with IntelliJ IDEA

In this tutorial you will:

Create IntelliJ IDEA projects for both client and server-side Web Service parts 1.

Learn how to tie them together 2.

Use various frameworks and technologies: Apache Axis, JAX-WS, RESTful 3.

Web Services

http://tomcat.apache.org/

You may also want to check http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/training/demos.html and http://www.

jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/documentation.html to get better insight into IntelliJ IDEA

and its features.

Creating Web Service: Apache Axis

Prior to proceeding with the tutorial steps, make sure that an application server is installed on

your machine. After that, launch IntelliJ IDEA and begin with creating a project from scratch.

Run 1. IntelliJ IDEA.

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Creating Web Services Applications with IntelliJ IDEA

On the 2. File menu, click New Project. The New Project wizard appears. Click Next.

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Creating Web Services Applications with IntelliJ IDEA

Now, IntelliJ IDEA generates the project with some sample code — HelloWorld class. This is

how the project structure should look.

Sample HelloWorld class contains the generated code that concatenates a given string with

Hello, world, from and then sends it back to the client along with printing to the server console.

We only need to mark this class as one implementing a Web service by adding the

@WebService annotation. IntelliJ IDEA suggests a quick-fix for it. Click the light bulb,

or press Alt + Enter to automatically add annotation and corresponding import.

Another quick-fix we need to apply is adding @WebMethod annotation. We’ll

Click 3. OK. IntelliJ IDEA automatically adds service description

to the server-config.wsdd file:

<service name=”HelloWorld” provider=”java:RPC” style=”document”

use=”literal”>

<parameter name=”className” value=”example.HelloWorld”/>

<parameter name=”allowedMethods” value=”*”/>

<parameter name=”scope” value=”Application”/>

<namespace>http://example</namespace>

</service>