Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 RC0
New and Noteworthy

Web Services

Axis2 Web Services tools

The Web services tools now supports the Axis2 version 1.2 Web services runtime.
First, install the Axis2 v1.2 runtime using the Web services preference:

Second, create a dynamic Web project adding the Axis2 facets:

To choose the Axis2 Web service runtime, click the Web service runtime hyperlink. Then, you can create Axis2 bottom up Web service, top down Web service and Web service client using the existing Web services tools:


Refer to the following Axis2 Web services tutorials for details:
• Bottom up Axis2 Web service
• Top down Axis2 Web service

Web Services tools supports Axis 1.4

The Web services tools have been updated to support Axis 1.4 instead of Axis 1.3.

Web Services Explorer supports pluggable transport and message stack

A new extension point has been added to the Web Services Explorer: org.eclipse.wst.ws.explorer.wseTransportProvider

This extension point entry allows an extender to plug in a new factory for creating org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.explorer.transport.ISOAPTransport instances. The ISOAPTranport is used by the Web Services Explorer for invoking Web services operations that uses the SOAP message protocol. The factory must implement the org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.explorer.transport.ISOAPTransportProvider interface.

Other classes/interfaces which are part of this API are as follows:

• Interfaces:
  • ISOAPMessage - This interface represents a SOAP message in a web service invocation made by the Web Services Explorer's transport stack.
  • ISerializer - The ISerializer is responsible for taking an ISOAPMessage and serializing it into an XML string.
  • IDeserializer - The IDeserializer is responsible for taking an XML string and deserializing it into values to populate an ISOAPMessage.
• Classes:
  • MessageContext - A MessageContext object holds information about the message that is to be sent on a web service invocation.
  • SOAPMessage - This is a default implementation of the ISOAPMessage interface that extenders of the Web Services Explorer transport can use.
• exceptions:
  • TransportException - A general purpose exception to indicate a problem has occurred when invoking a web service.
  • HttpTransportException - A type of TransportException that can be thrown when the transport protocol is HTTP.

These classes/interfaces are found in the org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.explorer.transport package.

Adding optional mergerClass attribute to the Web Services implementation type extension

A new optional attribute "mergerClass" is introduced in the Web services implementation type extension point org.eclipse.jst.ws.consumption.ui.wsImpl. This mergerClass should implement the newly defined org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.wsrt.IMerger interface which contains a load() and merge() method. This class is used for the purpose of Web services skeleton file merging for the Web service implementation type. A org.eclipse.jst.ws.internal.consumption.common.JavaMerger has been defined for the Java Web service implementation type.