Unit Testing CXF Web Services

Here is a quick little unit test setup to test your CXF service class and your client class. This is nice if you are testing marshaling issues.

@Test
  public void testMyWebService() {
    MyWebServiceImpl endpoint = new MyWebServiceImpl ();
    JaxWsServerFactoryBean svrFactory = new JaxWsServerFactoryBean();
    svrFactory.setServiceClass(MyWebServiceInterface.class);
    svrFactory.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/myService");
    svrFactory.setServiceBean(endpoint);
    svrFactory.create();

    JaxWsProxyFactoryBean factory = new JaxWsProxyFactoryBean();
    factory.setServiceClass(MyWebServiceInterface.class);
    factory.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/myService");
    MyWebServiceInterface client = (MyWebServiceInterface) factory.create();

     List details = client.performSomeWebServiceAction("11");
    Assert.assertNotNull(details);
  }

That's it! This will bootstrap an actual JAXWS version of your service within your JVM and hit it with a real CXF client. One thing you have to make sure of, if you are running tests on a CI server be sure to use a port which is not in use on that build box.