Comments on: Expose a Liferay Service as a Web Service

By: josef

josef — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:57:48 +0000

Is there any way to do the same thing but expose JAX-WS webservices which are Document/Literal? Ideally using something like Apache CXF?

Most web service stacks do not support RPC/Encoded anymore.

By: Samsam

Samsam — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:34:58 +0000

Good stuff,

Thanks a lot
Sam

By: Bert Willems

Bert Willems — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:03:27 +0000

Hello Sam,

First of all thank you for your feedback. I have updated the tutorial. I added the Portal preparation section which explains the IP block you encounter. I hope that solves your 403 error.

Regards,
Bert

By: Samsam

Samsam — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:50:53 +0000

Thank you for the great tutorial.
I created this example, copied hello-world-service-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file to tomcat/lib/ext/ directory, and modified the .wsdd file (./tomcat/webapps/tunnel-web/WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd).

I restarted liferay portal.
When I navigate to tunnel-web/axis url, it causes page error:

HTTP Status 403 – Access denied for 120.153.106.89

type Status report

message Access denied for 120.153.106.89

description Access to the specified resource (Access denied for 120.153.106.89) has been forbidden.

Here is the public url:
http://www.ixsystems.com.au/tunnel-web/axis

Thanks
Sam

By: bimki

bimki — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:02:50 +0000

I have similar problem as Giancarlo
I’m using 6.06

By: Bert Willems

Bert Willems — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:35:04 +0000

Hello Giancarlo,

Can you tell me what version of Liferay you are using?

Regards,
Bert

By: Giancarlo Cordier

Giancarlo Cordier — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:19:16 +0000

Hi,
I tink i’ve followe the tutorial step-by-step…

I can see the Web Service but when I try to invoke the method
i’ve the following exception:

18:16:35,085 ERROR [HelloWorldServiceSoap:18] java.lang.RuntimeException: HelloWorldService is not set

Any suggestion?
Tanks
Giancarlo

By: Bert Willems

Bert Willems — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:06:30 +0000

Hello Lawrence,

It depends on your conditions and both scenarios will work but in general I recommend to create a service as described in my article which wraps the Liferay local API. I recommend this because, IMHO, modifying Liferays core is more likely to break when upgrading to a newer version.

Regards, Bert

By: Lawrence Li

Lawrence Li — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:45:55 +0000

Thanks for the article. It is extremely helpful.

However, I’m running into an issue where I’m not finding certain Web service operations in Liferay. For example, the IGImageLocalServiceUtil.addImage method does not have an accompanying Liferay Web service operation. I would like to add this Web service operation so that my app can execute IGImageLocalServiceUtil.addImage from SOAP . Should I do it using the technique you listed in this article or would you recommend using the EXT or EXT plugin (for 6.0) – or would you recommend something else? Is this even possible using EXT or EXT plugin – I have to admit I’m not familiar with EXT or the EXT plugin.

I posted a similar question in the Liferay forum (http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/7188341), but so far no one has responded. I would truly appreciate your advice. Thanks!

By: Mark in Minn

Mark in Minn — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:16:42 +0000

AND, I was able to answer my own question after taking a weekend off.