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.

This is the recommend way to deploy since it impacts only a single module.

Websphere

TBD

Other Links

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