Web Services Question

[luisg]

Hi there. I've a big problem here, and don't know how to solve this.
Imagine the following scenario:
An application, A, need to access to a Web Service, B, (in a Tomcat 1) to invoke something. When A, make a request to B, B should make an operation in Alfresco (running in Tomcat 2). example: A make a request to B to create a folder in Alfresco. you know what I mean?

I did a Web Service in Eclipse and I wrote a simple function to login in Alfresco: the function receive a user (String) and a password (String) and return a message (String) that indicate if login succeeds or not. After that I generated a client with the wsdl.
If I make a request with that client to the service, giving the credentials ('admin', 'admin') I get this:

Request:

<soapenv:Envelope>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <q0:novaAccao>
      <q0:user>admin</q0:user>
      <q0ass>admin</q0ass>
     </q0:novaAccao>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Response:

<soapenv:Envelope>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <soapenv:Fault>
         <faultcode>soapenverver.userException</faultcode>
         <faultstring>java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException</faultstring>
         <detail>
            <ns1:hostname>pt0103</ns1:hostname>
         </detail>
      </soapenv:Fault>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

pt0103 is the name of my machine.

The code is working, cause I did a test with a class with that code. the code is:

public String novaAccao(java.lang.String user, java.lang.String pass){
      final String URL = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api";
      String result;
      try
      {
         System.out.println("Logging to " + URL);
         WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress(URL);
         AuthenticationUtils.startSession(user, pass);
         result = "success";
      }
      catch(Exception e)
      {
            System.err.println("FAIL.");
            result = "fail";
            e.printStackTrace();
       }
      return result;
   }

Any of you have (or had) the same problem?
What am I doing wrong?

Please, Help

Luis

[luisg]

I'm just trying to call Alfresco Web Services from a normal Web Service.
When I try to do that, I get the above error…

Please, I need help!

[cheffilet]

Its not possible for you to use Alfresco-WebServices?

[luisg]

Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

I think you don't understand my question…

I did a class in java that use the alfresco web services. That class can create folders, can do searches in Alfresco, etc. Works perfectly if I run as a normal java application.
But I need to do a Web Service that accept some credentials from another application, and after that, use the alfresco Web Services to create content in Alfresco.

                                 —— request ——>                           ——– request ——–>
External ApplicationA                              My Web Service                                      Alfresco
                                 <—– response —–                          <——- response ——-

I can do make it work.

If I run the code in my Web Service as a normal java application, it works.

Luis

[luisg]

oops… the schema looks bad

External Application  ——-request——> My Web Service   —–request——> Alfresco

My Web Service should receive a request from the external application and should do a request to Alfresco.
It seams that exists a conflict in axis… Maybe because he uses axis in External Application  ——-request——> My Web Service and in My Web Service   —–request——> Alfresco

Help

Luis

[luisg]

Hi

I did find the solution.

My problem was not related with Alfresco, but with missing libraries in my project.

Now it's working.

Thanks

Luis

[veraniego]

Im having the same problem…

How did you solve this issue??

Thank you in advance

[ramzi1c]

Hi luisg

I have the same problem and i couldn't solve it, would you please list the libraries needed to run the application.

thanks in advance.

[lahdo]

try with them:
commons-discovery-0.2.jar
commons-logging-1.1.jar
jaxrpc.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar
opensaml-1.0.1.jar
wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar

[openpj]

You can find all the dependencies needed to use the Web Service Client in the SDK Remote project in the Alfresco SDK.

Hope this helps.