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First we'll write our service interface. It will have one operation called "sayHello" which says "Hello" to whoever submits their name.

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Our implementation will then look like this:

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The @WebService annotation on the implementation class lets CXF know which interface to use when creating WSDL. In this case its simply our HelloWorld interface.

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Lets create a "cxf-servlet.xml" file in our WEB-INF directory which declares an endpoint bean:

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If you want to reference a spring managed-bean, you can write like this:

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The bean uses the following properties:

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Since we're relying on the default "cxf-servlet.xml" file the default a web.xml referenced by many samples can be used.

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1. the Spring ContextLoaderLister. This starts Spring and explicitly loads the configuration file. We can specify where our file is via a context-param element.

An example:

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It is important to note that the address that you chose for your endpoint bean must be one your servlet listens on. For instance, if my Servlet was register for "/some-services/*" but my address was "/more-services/HelloWorld", there is no way CXF could receive a request.

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Just like the <jaxws:endpoint> used on the server side, there is a <jaxws:client> that can be used on the client side. You'll give it a bean name, the service interface, and the service URL, and it will create a bean with the specified name, implementing the service interface, and invoking the remote SOAP service under the covers:

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You can now inject that "helloClient" bean into any other Spring bean, or look it up from the Spring application context manually with code like this:

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You can also do more sophisticated things with the <jaxws:client> element like add nested tags to attach JAX-WS Handlers or CXF Interceptors to the client. For more on this see JAX-WS Configuration.

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CXF includes a JaxWsProxyFactory bean which create a client for you from your service interface. You simply need to tell it what your service class is (the HelloWorld interface in this case) and the URL of your service. You can then create a client bean via the JaxWsProxyFactory bean by calling it's create() method.

Here's an example:

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If you were going to access your client you could now simply pull it out of the Spring context (or better yet, inject it into your application using Spring!):

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client code at httphttps://svngithub.com/apache.org/reposcxf/asfblob/cxf/trunkmaster/distribution/src/main/release/samples/java_first_spring_support/src/main/java/demo/spring/client/Client.java

Some usage scenarios will require more extensive configuration (and this is not the case with the <jaxws:client> syntax described above). For more information, see JAX-WS Configuration.

Advanced Steps

For more information on using Spring you may want to read the Configuration and Spring sections of the User's Guide.