Web Services

By Kamal Wickramanayake, 18 July, 2010

Apache Axis2 WS-Security message signing vulnerability (Version 1.5.1)

Note: See the bottom of this page to download the sample code used.

Rampart is the Apache Axis2 module that implements the WS-Security features. To add such features to your Web service, Axis2 provides two different configuration mechanisms. One depends on WS-SecurityPolicy and is the approach that is preferred. The other approach is known as the “parameter based configuration”.

By Kamal Wickramanayake, 9 July, 2010

Validating an XML document against a given XML Schema in Java

Many XML validators exist. Here's how you may implement an XML validator in Java. At times you may need to take a programmatic approach like this.

By Kamal Wickramanayake, 12 June, 2010

JAX-WS Web services in JBoss 5 do not work (JDK 1.6, Eclipse IDE)?

Environment: JDK 1.6, JBoss 5.1, Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)

I came across the following JBoss error when a JAX-WS Web service was accessed:

11:15:18,008 ERROR [SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS] SOAP request exception
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: setProperty must be overridden by all subclasses of SOAPMessage
at javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage.setProperty(SOAPMessage.java:441)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPMessageImpl.<init>(SOAPMessageImpl.java:87)

By Kamal Wickramanayake, 21 May, 2008

Enabling Apache Axis2 Clustering

I tried enabling clustering support in both standard and war distributions of Apache Axis2 version 1.4. It was not as simple as said. I could see possibly a bug related with coding in war distribution. And in both distributions, I could see improper axis2.xml files and several mistakes in packaging jars. Here's how you go about enabling clustering support:

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Web Services