Category Archives: JEE

Adding a Web Application to a Jar-File

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I had the job to implement the client side of a web service. To test this implementation I needed a server. I could have used a full-blown JEE server and deploy the server-side of the web service there. I decided against this approach (for several reasons).

Another solution for me would be to use the official test server for the web server. This was not feasible because the test server could be down for several reasons (leaving me with searching for bugs that are outside the scope of my duty) and the data was not reliable and changed regularly so that reliable tests were not reproducible.

I decided to deploy my web service as a simple web application to a simple web server (Jetty in my case). Also I wanted a simple way to deploy my test server/service so I decided to embed the Jetty server into a simple application which I can start with a simple script.
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Accessing a SSL Protected Web Service with Metro out of a Glassfish Application Server

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The Problem

I had the problem to access a web service out of a Glassfish Application Server (3.1.1). Basically this is not a problem because Glassfish (and Metro – the JAX-WS implementation in Glassfish) can handle web services quite well. But in my case there where some problems accessing the web service. My problems were:

  1. The web service has to be accessed via SSL.
  2. The certificate should not be stored in a truststore.
  3. The certificate has not the hostname as the CN.

The first problem is not really a problem but with the second problem together with the first one can be really tough to solve. So lets solve this problems ;-).
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