tutorial-soap-spring-boot-cxf

Tutorial how to create, test, deploy, monitor SOAP-Webservices using Spring Boot, Apache CXF and JAX-WS

Every following step builds upon the preceding one. So if you start e.g. with step 3, you´ll have all of step 1 & 2 covered in the code.

The Steps 1-3: published accompanying the blog-posts: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – How to SOAP in 2016 (or german version: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – SOAP ohne XML? )

step1_simple_springboot_app_with_cxf

Shows you, how to set up a simple Spring Boot Application and bootstrap a runnable CXF-Framework within the embedded Tomcat.

step2_wsdl_2_java_maven

Inherits a completely altered example WebService-Definition as WSDL inspired from the popular http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx?WSDL

Shows, how to generate JAXB-Classes from WSDL with JAX-WS Commons Maven plugin at build time - just run

mvn clean generate-sources

step3_jaxws-endpoint-cxf-spring-boot

First running SOAP-Endpoint with SpringBoot, CXF and JAX-WS. For testing use SoapUI (Testing our Service inside a Unittest will be part of a further Step).

step3_jaxws-endpoint-cxf-spring-boot-orig-wsdl

Full-Contract-First with using the generated JAX-WS Service-Class to not wrap WSDL and use original one - includes correct URL and TargetNamespace (recommended)

The Steps 4: published accompanying the blog-posts: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – Testing SOAP Web Services (or german version: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – SOAP-Webservices testen )

step4_test

Unit-, Integration- and Single-System-Integration-Tests with Spring (Boot) and Apache CXF

The Steps 5: published accompanying the blog-posts: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – XML validation and custom SOAP faults (or german version: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – XML-Validierung und Custom SOAP Faults )

step5_custom-soap-fault

Custom SOAP faults after XML schema validation, that are valid against an XSD itself and will be fired, regardles what will enter your endpoint :)

The Steps 6-9: published accompanying the blog-posts: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – Logging & Monitoring with Logback, Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana (or german version: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – Logging & Monitoring mit Logback, Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana )

step6_soap_message_logging

How to configure SOAP message logging on Apache CXF endpoints

step7_soap_message_logging_payload_only

Tailor Apache CXF´s SOAP message log statements<

step8_logging_into_elasticstack

Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana - How to log SOAP messages in 2016, including:

• Configuring the logstash-logback-encoder

step9_soap_message_logging_into_custom_elasticsearch_field

• Logging SOAP messages into their own Elasticsearch fields
• Correlating all Log-Events concerning a specific SOAP request

The Steps 10: published accompanying the blog-posts: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – SOAP on steroids fueled by cxf-spring-boot-starter (or german version: Spring Boot & Apache CXF – Von 0 auf SOAP mit dem cxf-spring-boot-starter )

step10_simple_app_with_cxf-spring-boot-starter

• Showing, how to quickly use every possible solution of all previous steps with the cxf-spring-boot-starter