Application Server Specific Configuration Guide

This document provides app server-specific configuration information for running Apache CXF.

WebLogic

There are two ways to deploy a CXF WAR archive in WebLogic. (Note: This has been validated on WebLogic9.2.)

Put jars in endorsed folder

• Put the geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec-1.1.1.jar in the $Weblogic_Home/jdk_../jre/lib/endorsed folder.
• Deploy the CXF war in weblogic.
  (This way is not recommended, since it might break the application server itself. )

Pack war in an ear, deploy the ear with weblogic-application.xml

• Create a standard J2EE application.xml file in the META-INF folder. (Take $CXF_HOME/samples/java_first_spring_support for example)

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC
  		"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN"
  		"http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd">
  <application>
  	<display-name>spring_http</display-name>
  	<module>
  		<web>
  			<web-uri>spring_http.war</web-uri>
  			<context-root>spring</context-root>
  		</web>
  	</module>
  </application>
     

• Create a weblogic-application.xml (Weblogic specific) in the META-INF folder.

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <weblogic-application xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90">
  	<application-param>
  		<param-name>webapp.encoding.default</param-name>
  		<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
  	</application-param>
  	<prefer-application-packages>
  		<package-name>javax.jws.*</package-name>
  	</prefer-application-packages>
  </weblogic-application>
     

• Run "jar cvf ..." command to create the ear and then deploy it.

Websphere

TBD

Other Links

Deploy XFire in WebLogic
Understanding WebLogic ClassLoader