 | Level: Intermediate Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance Writer, Backstop Media
27 Mar 2007 Work on the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform (STP) plug-in is well under way, and we should expect lots of new features to aid Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment in the coming months. The Eclipse STP became the ninth top-level project for the Eclipse organization in 2005, and since then, development has come a long way. With the Eclipse STP plug-in, you can go from a Java™ interface, annotate it with Web service-related properties, create a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for the Web service, generate and code Java stubs you can then compile into a WAR file, and deploy on your favorite Web server. This tutorial shows you how to accomplish all this using the Eclipse STP plug-in.
In this tutorial
This tutorial is for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services
developers who want to learn to use the Eclipse SOA Tools Project (STP)
plug-in and see for themselves how it can simplify their SOA development.
It shows the advantages and simplicity of using the Eclipse STP plug-in to
build a Web service. You will learn how to do the following with the STP plug-in: - Create a project
- Develop a Java interface
- Annotate the interface with Web services properties
- Generate WSDL
- Generate Java code from WSDL
- Add implementation code to your Web service
- Compile a WAR file of your Web service
- Deploy and test the Web service
Prerequisites
See System requirements below.
System requirements
This tutorial relies on several Eclipse and Apache technologies for development with the STP plug-in:
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Eclipse
- Eclipse is the platform upon which the Eclipse SOA Tools plug-in runs. Download Eclipse V3.2 from the Eclipse Foundation.
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Eclipse STP prerequisite plug-ins
- Before you install the STP plug-in, you need to install several prerequisite plug-ins.
The version numbers and links to download them are listed on the STP download page for the STP
version you specify. At the time this was written, the latest stable build was 1 Feb
2007. You should already have Eclipse V3.2 installed. Prerequisite plug-ins: Eclipse EMF-SDO-XSD
SDK, Eclipse
GEF SDK, Eclipse
JEM SDK, Eclipse WTP
SDK, and Eclipse
GMF Runtime.
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Eclipse STP Core SDK
- Now that you've got the prerequisite plug-ins, you can download the STP Core SDK
plug-in, which you'll see under "SOA Tools Platform" on the STP download page.
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Eclipse STP ServiceCreation
- In addition to the STP Core SDK, you need to download the STP ServiceCreation plug-in,
which you'll see under the link from which you downloaded the STP Core SDK.
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Eclipse STP SOAS
- In addition to the STP Core SDK, you need to download the STP SOAS plug-in, which
you'll see under the link from which you downloaded the STP Core SDK and STP ServiceCreation.
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Eclipse
DTP SDK
- You need to use the Eclipse DTP to aid deployment on Web servers other than the stand-alone Web server bundled inside Eclipse.
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Eclipse
Apache CXF plug-in
- The STP plug-in uses Apache CXF its JAX-WS implementation, among other things.
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Apache CXF Runtime
- Once you've got everything installed, you need to tell Eclipse where to find the Apache CXF Runtime.
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Apache Tomcat
- You'll do a final test by deploying the Web service on Apache Tomcat. Download the latest Apache Tomcat V5.5.
You'll learn more about installation details before you begin coding later in the tutorial.
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