Getting a web service client working within a JIRA plugin

[Edward Sant]

I am trying to get a my jira plugin to call a simple web service within a jira plugin, but I am not having any luck.

I generated the classes using wsimport:

wsimport -keep -verbose http://localhost:5382/Service1.svc?wsdl

The code to use the service looks something like:

private String CreateIssue() {

 

        IssueService service = new IssueService();

        IIssueService binding = service.getBasicHttpBindingIIssueService();

 

        String issueID = binding.createIssue(type, description, steps, 
                                             expected, workaround, storage, 
                                             docType, actions, tools, external, 
                                             repeatability, workaroundType, severity, 
                                             pmSeverity, products, extensions, versions, 
                                             os, status, project, resolution, fixversions); 

        return issueID;
    }

Very simple and straight forward. Unfortunately when I try and call this code I get a: ClassNotFoundException: Provider com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl

After reading this: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16435/use-jax-ws-client-in-jira-plugin-v2

I feel like there is classloader issue or something I have tried with jaxws-rt as a dependency and without and nothing seems to work.

[Joe Clark · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check out this answer - https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/44457/implement-jax-ws-in-jira-5-plugin/97748

With some hackery, I was able to get JAX-WS working from within a JIRA plugin. If you have the option, using Axis would be a much nicer experience.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Have a look at my article, how to call a SOAP web service from Jira using jax-ws in Jira 7.2.x

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Agile-articles/How-to-call-a-SOAP-Web-Service-from-Jira-7-2-x-plugin/ba-p/1010338

[Radek Kantor]

Hi,

SOAP client web servce runtime is Apache Axis? You must specify some runtime in client class generation process from wsdl. If it is Axis, import dependency into pom.xml

<dependency>
            <groupId>axis</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>axis</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis-jaxrpc</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>axis</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis-saaj</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>axis</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis-wsdl4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

[Edward Sant]

I think the client is using JAXWS not Apache axis. Can I generate an axis client from a wsdl?