Change the default WSIF SOAP provider

 

The WSIF default SOAP provider (the IBM Web Service SOAP provider) is designed to interoperate fully with a JAX-RPC compliant Web service, and therefore the default provider does not fully interoperate with services running on the former (Apache SOAP) provider. To get your legacy services working again, you can either modify your Web services to use the current IBM Web Service SOAP provider, or you can change the WSIF default provider back to Apache SOAP as described in this topic.

 

Overview

WSIF uses a properties file named wsif.properties to choose what SOAP provider to use. The SOAP provider is a node-wide setting, so all servers on the node must be restarted for any changes to take effect. The wsif.properties file is shipped in the com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar file that is located in the app_server_root/plugins directory (where app_server_root is the root directory for your installation of IBM WAS), and the "as shipped" properties file is accessed in this location by being put on the class path. However when you make changes to the file, you do not replace the original copy in the com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar file. Instead, you save the modified version in the app_server_root/lib/properties directory.

To change the WSIF default SOAP provider back to Apache SOAP, complete the following steps:

 

Procedure

1. Extract the wsif.properties file from the com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar file that is located in the app_server_root/plugins directory (where app_server_root is the root directory for your installation of IBM WAS).

2. Open the wsif.properties file in a text editor.

3. Remove the leading "#" character from the following lines:

   # wsif.provider.default.org.apache.wsif.providers.soap.ApacheSOAP.WSIFDynamicProvider_ApacheSOAP=1
   # wsif.provider.uri.1.org.apache.wsif.providers.soap.ApacheSOAP.WSIFDynamicProvider_ApacheSOAP=\
   # http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/
   #
   

   After the update, the preceding lines should look like this:

   wsif.provider.default.org.apache.wsif.providers.soap.ApacheSOAP.WSIFDynamicProvider_ApacheSOAP=1 wsif.provider.uri.1.org.apache.wsif.providers.soap.ApacheSOAP.WSIFDynamicProvider_ApacheSOAP=\
   #
   

4. Save the updated wsif.properties file in the app_server_root/lib/properties directory.

5. Stop then restart all appservers on the node.

 

Example

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Related tasks

Modifying Web services to use the IBM Web Service SOAP provider
WSIF SOAP provider: working with legacy applications

 

Related Reference

wsif.properties file - Initial contents