[wtp-dev] Enhancements in Web Services test extension released last week

[Kathy Chan <kathy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Please note that an enhancement to the
Web service test extension point has been made in last week's WTP 1.5.1
M-build:

1.5.1
  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 -- 17:26 (UTC) 

See defect 153833
for detail.  Here's a short description of the change:

We have changed the org.eclipse.jst.ws.consumption.ui.tester
extension point so that a
particular Web service test extension can optionally specify that they
only
support a particular kind of Web service client runtime type.  

When deciding which Web service test facility to present to the user, the
Web
service wizard would then take this optional attribute into account depending
on which
Web service runtime is being processed.

Since the test extension do not necessarily
know about what runtime it can
support (there could be many Web service runtime extender), we are
letting the Web service runtime extenders define which test extension could
support their client runtime via the new "supportedClientRuntime"
attribute.  

You can specify more than one client
runtime by listing the client runtimes one after 
another seperated by a space.

For Web services tester extensions that can restrict support by client
runtime, such as the Web Services sample JSP generator, we have added a
new attribute
"allowClientRuntimesRestriction" and set it to "true".
 This attribute will be defaulted to "false" 
so that existing Web Service Tester
extenders do not have
to react to this change or be inadventently restricted by a particular
client
runtime some plugin higher up in the stack may specify.  So as a result,
Web
Service test facility such as the Web Services Explorer would still show
up for
all Web service runtime.

Since we have now allowed the Web services
sample JSP generator to "allowClientRuntimesRestriction" 
and set the "supportedClientRuntime"
to the Axis Web service client runtimes, the Web Services Sample JSP
generator test facility would not be
showing up for other Web service runtimes unless they add an extension

similar to the following defined for
the Axis Web service runtime:

<extension point="org.eclipse.jst.ws.consumption.ui.tester">
 <tester         
  id=
 
"org.eclipse.jst.ws.internal.consumption.ui.widgets.test.WebServiceSampleTest"
supportedClientRuntimes=
  "org.eclipse.jst.ws.axis.consumption.java      
                     
       
   org.eclipse.jst.ws.axis.consumption.web">
 </tester>
</extension> 

In addition, we have added 2 optional
attributes to the Web service test extension:
- codeGenerated (defaulted to false, should set to true if code will be
generated by this test extension)
- serverRequired (defaulted to false,
should set to true if this test extension requires a server to run)

Please see defect 104870
for more detail.

The above changes had been communicated
to the known extenders to Web services runtime.

Regards,

Kathy Chan
Rational Java Web Services, IBM Toronto Lab
D3-354, D3/R8V/8200/MKM, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada,
L6G 1C7
kathy@xxxxxxxxxx, (905) 413-3022, tieline: 969-6038, fax: (905) 413-4920