JAX-WS inside Jetty

Jetty is a nice and easy to use Web Server (see previous post), but it can it handle an open standards, heavy weight JAX-WS Web Service ?

With a bit of luck and glue code, it can.

So first we need a Service Provider Implementation (SPI) from Jetty: J2se6HttpServerSPI

This will make the JAX-WS endpoint use the Jetty server instead its default Sun HttpServer.

To plugin different SPI's you would define this new service in a META-INF/services file, but you can also set a system property, as described here. You can even do this in code which reduces the number of files you need to worry about when refactoring.

So here's an example of a Jetty Server handling a JAX-WS endpoint in combination with a File system directory.

      Server jettyServer = new Server(port);
     HandlerCollection handlerCollection = new HandlerCollection();
     jettyServer.setHandler(handlerCollection);
    
     /** 1) Publish WebService (JettyHttpServerProvider) */ 
     String context = "/web/ws";
             
     // 1.1) register THIS Jetty server with the JettyHttpServerProvider
     new JettyHttpServerProvider().setServer(jettyServer);
      
     // 1.2) make sure JAX-WS endpoint.publish will use our new service provider: JettyHttpServerProvider
     System.setProperty("com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServerProvider",
           "org.mortbay.jetty.j2se6.JettyHttpServerProvider");
      
     // 1.3) add an empty HandlerCollection to by setup by this provider
     handlerCollection.addHandler( new HandlerCollection() );
      
     // 1.4) use JAX-WS API to publish the endpoint (will use a JettyHttpServerProvider)
     Endpoint endpoint = Endpoint.create(replayServiceImpl);
     endpoint.publish("http://localhost:" + port + "/web/ws", replayServiceImpl);
    
     /** 2) Publish WebGUI (Jetty) */       
     String context = "/gui";

     // 2.1) configure File Resource Handler
     ResourceHandler fileResourceHandler=new ResourceHandler();
     fileResourceHandler.setWelcomeFiles(new String[]{"index.html"});
     fileResourceHandler.setResourceBase(guiPath); // start here
       
     // 2.2) configure 'gui' Context
     ContextHandler guiHandler = new ContextHandler();
     guiHandler.setContextPath(context);
     guiHandler.setResourceBase(".");
     guiHandler.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
     guiHandler.setHandler(fileResourceHandler);
      
     // 2.3) add this context handler
     handlerCollection.addHandler(guiHandler);
 
     /** 3) start JETTY server */
     jettyServer.start();
     jettyServer.join();