Adventures of a service oriented architect
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Modularization is an important concept of programming. So, when I wanted to create a Java Service in webMethods’ Integration Server today, I wanted to re-use my existing Java code that already provided the feature I wanted to publish as a Service. However, this is not as easy as it sounds đ Here are the steps … Read more
The following problem with webMethods Integration Server already occured twice in our environment, so I think it’s time to document the fix. When opening the generated WSD for a web service, I got the following error: [ISS.0088.9163] Could not retrieve WSDL for service […], WSD not found. The problem was the URL generated by the … Read more
During the startup of webMethods Integration Server I found quite a few entries like this in server.log: [ISS.0141.9998E] Exception –> [ISS.0141.9208] Could not deploy the Web service descriptor […]. Cause: [ISC.0081.9164] Exception occurred during generation of WSDL for service […]: [ISC.0124.9011] Document to XSD error: Simple type […] does not exist None of the mentioned … Read more
Changing the Java version under which webMethods Integration Server runs and compiles Java services is quite easy (after you searched for hours for the right files to change ;-)). You can check which version your Integration Server uses on the About page: Here’s how to change the version for Integration Server (in my case version … Read more
For quite some time now I have used the default names for all the different artifacts (set, build, map, candidate) in WmDeployer, because I simply did not know how to name them in a meaningful way: However, after talking to an SAG consultant today, I finally came up with a meaningful naming convention: Deployment Set: … Read more
Today, I built a small test bed for unit-testing Flow Services in webMethods’ Integration Server. If you develop Java Services for IS and follow the best practice of “no business logic in the service layer”, you can unit-test your logic in isolation in a plain old Java environment and deploy the library to IS, which … Read more