How to configure address in JAX-WS CXF Client using JNDI lookup

Question

I am looking up my JNDI value of endpoint (properties file is not an option) on server like this

<jee:jndi-lookup id="MyEndpoint" jndi-name="endpoint.url" />

I would like to use the above looked up value in the place of address.

<jaxws:client id="helloClient"
       serviceClass="demo.spring.HelloWorld"
       address="http://localhost:9002/HelloWorld" />

I tried address="${MyEndpoint}". Did n't work. Looks like I have to use another bean, which uses jndi value and use its method to return as string i.e. address="#{MyBean.geyMyEndpoint()}". Doesn't look clean that way. Any suggestions?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '14 at 15:32

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You should be able to use Spring Expression Language to get the behavior you want, without using another bean. The following works for me in Tomcat 7:

<jee:jndi-lookup id="MyEndpoint" jndi-name="java:comp/env/MyEndpoint" />

<jaxws:client id="helloClient"
       serviceClass="demo.spring.HelloWorld"
       address="#{MyEndpoint}" />

answered Feb 04 '14 at 15:32

Patrick

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Thanks Patrick. It seems address="#{MyEndpoint}" started working after I updated by imported XSDs to Spring v3.2. – pingu Feb 06 '14 at 00:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '14 at 00:06

Also on another note from Spring 3.1 - Spring has unified property management. so instead of the above solution you can do this

<jaxws:client id="helloClient"  serviceClass="demo.spring.HelloWorld"  address="${endpoint.url}" />

endpoint.url could be any property(system, environment etc) and it will automatically resolve the property. so no need to do separate JNDI lookup and your code looks clean.

How to configure address in JAX-WS CXF Client using JNDI lookup

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