Mastering Spring Application Development

Writing a client application for Spring Web Services using JAXB unmarshalling for request

Let us write a simple client application for the author service. The org.springbyexample.ws.service package is scanned for beans and will find the AuthorServiceClient, and inject the web service template into it. The JAXB marshaller/umarshaller is defined and set on this template.

The import of the jetty-context.xml isn't relevant to creating a client, but it creates an embedded Jetty instance that loads the spring-ws-context.xml and its services. The client in the unit test is then able to run in isolation.

AuthorServiceClientTest.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...