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Web based Client

Create a Dynamic Web Project to consume the Web Service

• From Eclipse main menu, select File->New->Other
  
  
• In the New dialog, select Web->Dynamic Web Project and click Next
  
  
• Type jaxws-rest-converterclient as the Project Name and click Next
  
  
• On the Project Facets page, the default selections are enough.
  
  
• Make sure that the check box Generate Deployment Descriptor is selected and click Next
  
  
• On the Geronimo Deployment Page modify the Group Id to org.apache.geronimo.samples.jaxws.rest and the Artifact Id to jaxws-rest-converterclient.
  
  
• Click Finish

Developing the Web based Client

• Right Click the jaxws-converterclient, and Select New->JSP
  
  
• Name the jsp as index.jsp and click Finish
  
  
• Add the following code to the index.jsp

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This concludes the development section of our web based client.

Setting Up the Deployment Plan

• As two external jars have been added to the project's build path, One needs to specify them as dependencies so that at runtime application can resolve the classes.
  
  
• Expand WebContent/WEB-INF directory and open geronimo-web.xml
  
  
• Add the following code to geronimo-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns8:web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/connector-1.2"
	xmlns:ns2="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2"
	xmlns:ns3="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2"
	xmlns:ns4="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.2" 
	xmlns:ns5="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/pkgen-2.1"
	xmlns:ns6="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-2.0"
	xmlns:ns7="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-2.0" 
	xmlns:ns8="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1"
	xmlns:ns9="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
	xmlns:ns10="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-client-2.0">
	<ns2:environment>
		<ns2:moduleId>
			<ns2:groupId>default</ns2:groupId>
			<ns2:artifactId>jaxws-rest-converterclient</ns2:artifactId>
			<ns2:version>1.0</ns2:version>
			<ns2:type>car</ns2:type>
		</ns2:moduleId>

		<ns2:dependencies>
			<ns2:dependency>
				<ns2:groupId>commons-codec</ns2:groupId>
				<ns2:artifactId>commons-codec</ns2:artifactId>
				<ns2:version>1.3</ns2:version>
				<ns2:type>jar</ns2:type>
			</ns2:dependency>
			<ns2:dependency>
				<ns2:groupId>commons-httpclient</ns2:groupId>
				<ns2:artifactId>commons-httpclient</ns2:artifactId>
				<ns2:version>3.0.1</ns2:version>
				<ns2:type>jar</ns2:type>
			</ns2:dependency>
		</ns2:dependencies>
	</ns2:environment>
	<ns8:context-root>/jaxws-rest-converterclient</ns8:context-root>
</ns8:web-app>

Deploying and Testing the Web Client

Deploy

• Right click on the Apache Geronimo Server Runtime present in the servers view and select Add and Remove Projects
  
  
• Add jaxws-rest-converterclient to configured projects list and then click Finish
  
  
• Wait for some time till the server status changes to Synchronized

Testing

• Right click the index.jsp present under WebContent directory of our project and select Run As->Run On Server
  
  
• In the popup, check the check box Always use this server when running the project and then click Finish
  
  
• Now Eclipse will try to open the jsp in a web browser which shows you a form to enter amount in Dollars.
  
  
• Enter any amount and press submit, the jsp should display the result that is returned by the web service.

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