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<title>Service Archive Generator Wizard Guide for Eclipse Plug-in</title> | |
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<h1>Service Archive Generator Wizard Guide for Eclipse Plug-in</h1> | |
<p>This document will guide you through the installation and usage | |
of the archive generator Eclipse plug-in.</p> | |
<p><a href="../../download.html">[Download Plugin Tool]</a></p> | |
<macro name="toc"/> | |
<section name="Introduction"> | |
<p>As part of the Axis2 tool set, the service archive generator is | |
an important tool that allows the generation of service archives | |
("aar" file or a "jar" files) that can be deployed as a web | |
services to the Axis2.</p> | |
</section> | |
<section name="Installation"> | |
<p> | |
Installation instructions for the plugin can be found | |
<a href="plugin-installation.html">here</a>. | |
</p> | |
</section> | |
<section name="Operation"> | |
<p>If the plug-in is properly installed you should see a new wizard | |
under the "New" section. (Use the File -> New -> Other or | |
Ctrl + N )</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="ServiceWizardSelection" src= | |
"images/ServiceWizardSelection.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>Selecting the wizard and pressing the "Next" button will start | |
the service generator wizard. Following is the first page of the | |
wizard.</p> | |
<p><strong>Page 1:</strong></p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="ServicePage1" src= | |
"images/ServicePage1.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>Once the class file folder(which should be a folder in the | |
file system) is browsed and selected, the "Next" button will be | |
enabled and you can move to the next page. Note that you have the | |
option of either including all the files or the class files only of | |
the folder on page 1.</p> | |
<p><strong>Page 2:</strong></p> | |
<p>Page 2 of the wizard as seen below requires you to locate/browse | |
the WSDL file. If you do not wish to add a WSDL file to the service | |
archive, select skip WSDL, else you can select the location of the | |
WSDL file by selecting the select WSDL option.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page2" src= | |
"images/service_page2.jpg" /></p> | |
<p><strong>Page 3:</strong></p> | |
<p>Select the services.xml file on this wizard page by browsing or | |
select the option of generating service xml automatically, after | |
which you can click "Next" button to go to the next page. Notice | |
how the browsing option disables when the "Generate service xml | |
automatically" check box is ticked.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page3" src= | |
"images/service_page3.jpg" /></p> | |
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<p>Note that The service XML file can be generated if needed. To proceed | |
to the service generation page, check the "generate automatically" checkbox. </p> | |
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="service_page3_hl.jpg"></p> | |
<p>If the automatic mode is not selected then the wizard | |
will directly jump to the library selection page. However if the automatic mode is selected the wizard will show the | |
following page</p> | |
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="service_page4_plain.JPG" width="500" height="500"></p> | |
<p>This is a somewhat complicated page. The service name textbox should include the name of the service that you | |
wish to give this service. | |
For the implementation class type in the fully qualified class name and hit the load button to view the operations</p> | |
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="service_page4_load.JPG" ></p> | |
<p> The loaded operations should be displayed in a table. Once this is displayed you can filter the methods by selecting/deselecting the methods using the checkbox at each row.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="service_page4_table.JPG" width="500" height="500"></p> | |
<p>Further filtering can be achieved by using the "search declared methods" only checkbox</p> | |
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="service_page4_search_declared.JPG" ></p> | |
<p>Once the method selection is complete the wizard has enough information to generate a basic services.xml file. If further customization is required, there's no choice but to manually edit it!</p> | |
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<p><strong>Page 4:</strong></p> | |
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<p>The next step is to add the libraries. The library addition page | |
looks like this :</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page5" src= | |
"images/service_page5.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>The library name (with full path) can be either typed on the | |
text box or browsed for using the "Browse" button.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page5_browsed" src= | |
"images/service_page5_browsed.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>Once there is a library name with full path on the text box, hit | |
the "Add" button to add the library to the list. Added libraries | |
should be displayed in the "Added libraries" list box. This way you | |
can add as many external libraries as you wish. See the screen | |
shots below.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page5_hl" src= | |
"images/service_page5_hl.jpg" /></p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page5_added" src= | |
"images/service_page5_added.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>If any added library needs to be removed, highlight it or in | |
other words, select it from the "Added libraries" list and hit on | |
the "Remove" button as shown below. Click on the "Next" button to | |
proceed to the last page of the wizard if the user did not select | |
to auto generate the services.xml file. If user select to auto | |
generate the services.xml file then the services.xml option page | |
will be displayed.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page5_remove" src= | |
"images/service_page5_remove.jpg" /></p> | |
<p><strong>Page 5:</strong></p> | |
<p>This page only appears if the user select to generate the | |
services.xml at page 3 of the wizard. If the user have selected a | |
services.xml then the user will be directed to the last page of the | |
wizard.</p> | |
<p>After entering the correct service name and valid fully | |
qualified class name, try to load the existing methods of that | |
class by clicking the load button.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page4_load" src= | |
"images/service_page4_load.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>If successfully loaded the user will be presented with a table | |
at the bottom of the page with the details of the loaded class. By | |
checking and unchecking the user can select the necessary methods | |
to include in the services.xml</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page4_table" src= | |
"images/service_page4_table.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>By clicking on the search declared method only check box, the | |
user can remove the inherited methods from the class. Click on the | |
"Next" button to proceed to the last page of the wizard</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page4_search_declared" src= | |
"images/service_page4_search_declared.jpg" /></p> | |
<p><strong>Page 6:</strong></p> | |
<p>The last page of the wizard asks for the output file location | |
and the output archive file name. To be able to finish the wizard, | |
user must enter valid output file location and output file | |
name.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="service_page6" src= | |
"images/service_page6.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>Once all the parameters are filled, hit the "Finish" button to | |
complete the wizard and generate the service archive.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img alt="success_msg" src= | |
"images/success_msg.jpg" /></p> | |
<p>If you see the above message, then you've successfully generated | |
the service archive! This service archive can be hot deployed | |
(deployed at run time) to the axis2</p> | |
</section> | |
<section name="Appendix"> | |
<ul> | |
<li>Eclipse reference - <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org/</a></li> | |
<li>Custom Ant Tasks - <a href= | |
"http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html">http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html</a></li> | |
</ul> | |
</section> | |
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