Invoking a JAX-WS Oracle Weblogic 11g (10.3.4) Web Service from JRuby

The following demo show how to call a JAX-WS from Oracle Weblogic Server 11g (10.3.4) from a JRuby script. The real work is done by JDeveloper 11g (11.1.1.4) which creates the Web Service, generates a proxy client JAR which JRuby then uses to invoke the Web Service.

So in JDeveloper we have 2 projects one for the Web Service and one for the Proxy.

The Web Service is deployed to Weblogic 10.3.4 as shown below.

1. Create a JRuby script named "jaxws11g.rb" as follows

require 'java'

# the web service client JAR file generated from JDeveloper 11g Proxy wizard
require 'SimpleWSService-Client.jar'

java_import 'pas.au.wsclient.SimpleWSPortClient'

class TestWLSWebService

  def initialize
    @wsclient = SimpleWSPortClient.new  
  end
  
  def invoke_method
    return @wsclient.invoke_method
  end
  
end


print "Run at #{Time.now} using JRuby #{RUBY_VERSION}\n\n"

print "** FMW Weblogic 10.3.4 Web Service Invoke Test **\n\n"

test = TestWLSWebService.new
print test.invoke_method

print "\n\nEnded at #{Time.now} \n"

2. The JAR file referenced below is the Web Service proxy JAR file which is generated by JDeveloper once a proxy project is created from the WSDL file for the Web Service.


# the web service client JAR file generated from JDeveloper 11g Proxy wizard
require 'SimpleWSService-Client.jar'


3. Run shown below which simply identified the Weblogic managed server name it's running in and the date it was invoked.

> jruby jaxws11g.rb


Run at Fri Jan 21 11:10:37 +1100 2011 using JRuby 1.8.7
** FMW Weblogic 10.3.4 Web Service Invoke Test **
SimpleWS invoked at Thu Jan 20 11:05:13 EST 2011 from Weblogic Managed Server named apple
Ended at Fri Jan 21 11:10:38 +1100 2011

The Web Service is a simple class as follows

package pas.au.ws;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService
public class SimpleWS 
{
  public SimpleWS() 
  {
  }
    
  public String getManagedServerName () 
  {
    String retData = 
      String.format("SimpleWS invoked at %s from Weblogic Managed Server named %s", 
                    new Date(),
                    System.getProperty("weblogic.Name"));
    
    return retData;
    
  }
}