Table of Contents
This samples demonstrates
- How to enable a Metadata Exchange (MEX) request for an arbitrary service.
- How to use MEXClient to retrieve metadata from a service that supports MEX requests.
- How to write your own data retrievers to configure the metadata of your service.
Building the
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sample
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The steps are as follows:
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2. In a command prompt, switch to the sample directory:
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The MEX sample is located in <AS_HOME>\samplesSamples\MEX directory.
3. From there, type ant For more information, see Building Axis2 Samples.
Configuring Services
To enable MEX request support for samples services, follow these steps:1.
- Login to Application Server Management Console
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- On the Main menu, under services, click List.
The Deployed Services page will appear. - Click on the HelloWorldService1 link.
The service's Dashboard will appear.
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- Click on the Module Configurations link in the
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- Quality of Services
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- panel of the service dashboard.
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- Select wso2mex from the drop down list
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- Click Engage.
- An alert box would be displayed if the module is engaged successfully.
Running the Client
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- Switch to
<AS_HOME>/samples/MEXdirectory.
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Execute one of the following commands to run the client:
OS Command On Windows run-client.bat
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On Linux/Solaris sh run-client.sh
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Enter the URL of the target service. You will be prompted for the URL of the service, from which you wish to retrieve metadata.
For example:Panel Please enter the service URL: http://localhost:9763/services/HelloWorldService1
Choose the type of metadata you wish to retrieve.
For example, if you wish to retrieve XML Schema documents you need to type 1 and press enter when the following is prompted.Code Block Choose type of Metadata [1] XML Schema [1] WSDL [3] WS-Policy 1
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- Specify the Identifier.
This is optional. You can skip it by just pressing
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- Enter.
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- The results will be printed on the Console.