Comments on: Intercepting web service calls with a custom Metro Tube

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:05 +0000

Hi Marek,

good idea. I created an enhancement request:

https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=839

Do you know already, when there will be an updated GF/Metro roadmap?

By: Marek Potociar

Marek Potociar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:37:35 +0000

Hi Gunnar, currently it is difficult to tell. At present we are working on the future roadmap for Metro and GlassFish. But it would be certainly good if you could submit an new request for enhancement.

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:42 +0000

Hi Marek,

thanks for the very informative post. This helped me a lot when customizing Metro’s schema validation feature to make it runtime-configurable:

http://musingsofaprogrammingaddict.blogspot.com/2010/03/runtime-configuration-of-schema.html

Do you see any chance to get something like this integrated into Metro itself?

By: Marek Potociar

Marek Potociar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:23:45 +0000

Since Tube is not a public API, it is not documented for external users. But there are numerous blogs on that topic from my colleagues. Try googling for “tubes jaxws” and you should find some useful links.

By: xiong wei

xiong wei — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:48:44 +0000

hi， Marek
I have interest in metro tube, but I do not know where to get tutorial for tube. could u help provide some resource location? thanks

By: Marek Potociar

Marek Potociar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:41:26 +0000

I did place my tube into $AS_HOME/lib so that it is available to ALL web services deployed on the GF instance. Normally, it should be sufficient to bundle your metro.xml config file and your tube factory class along with your web services within your application’s WAR

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:46:28 +0000

Oh, I’ve just read that you had placed your tube in AS_HOME/lib directory…

But wan’t to notice that we have to do it because factory classes cannot be loaded. Configuration file is read perfectly (It’s done by the special loader class MetroConfigLoader). And only different classloaders make us to place jars to AS_HOME/lib. Hope this will be fixed…

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:33:35 +0000

Hello. Thanks for a great post.

I have a problem with metro 2.0 on Glassfish 2.1 (I’ve installed it manually). My tube factory cannot be loaded. JAXWS tube line assembler is created before the app is deployed. And tube factory has another classloader (metro classes are loaded by the parent one). So I’m getting ‘Unable to load tube factory class ‘ message within the runtime exception.

Don’t you know how it can be fixed?