CXF schema validation with TomEE

One of important updates for TomEE done recently (last releases) was to allow the user to configure CXF endpoints (ang get access to advanced configuration/features of CXF). One of them is the schema (xsd) validation of INPUT/OUTPUT messages.

This post will only deal with it but the way to activate it is the same for all properties of the JAXWS CXF endpoint.

First we suppose you have a web service ejb. For instance:

@Stateless
@WebService // WS interface is the obvious one you expect
public class MyWS implements WS {
    @Override
    public String o() {
        return "ok";
    }
}

From this point we’ll suppose the EJB name of your webservice is “MyWS”. Then you need to say to OpenEJB/TomEE you want to configure this endpoint. For that simply add an openejb-jar.xml (in WEB-INF for wars) with the following content:

<openejb-jar xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/openejb-jar/1.1">
  <ejb-deployment ejb-name="MyWS">
    <properties>
      cxf.jaxws.properties = MyWSProperties
    </properties>
  </ejb-deployment>
</openejb-jar>

At this moment we just declared that the properties for CXF JAXWS endpoint for the webservice MyWS will be filled in MyWSProperties “Service” (a data container in resources.xml).

To activate schema validation with CXF you just need to set schema-validation-enabled=true in the endpoint properties. So resources.xml looks like:

<resources>
  <Service id="MyWSProperties" class-name="java.util.Properties">
    schema-validation-enabled = true
  </Service>
</resources>

And that’s all :). Now your server will validate inputs/outputs.

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