### XFire Home Bug/Issue Reporting Download FAQ Get Involved License News Stack Comparison Support User's Guide XFire Team ### M5 Javadocs Reports ### M6-SNAPSHOT Javadocs Reports ### Developers Developer Space CVS Building Architecture Interesting Projects Release Process | You may want to use an xml configuration to configure XFire and your services instead of using the API. In such a case, XFire provides support for a "services.xml" file.
| Container Support XFire may already have native support for a container that you are using. If so, you may want to skip ahead to Container Support to achieve better integration with your existing platform. If you dont' know what a container is, containers manage components and configurations for you. Good examples are Spring, Plexus, Loom, PicoContainer, Geronimo, etc.
To use a services.xml to configure your services takes 2 steps: Write the services.xml file Update your web.xml file ## Write the services.xml file A simple services.xml looks like so:
    <xfire>
      <services>
        <service>
          <name>MyService</name>
          <serviceClass>my.service.Class</serviceClass>

          .... other options ...
        <service>
        <service>
          <serviceClass>another.service.Class</serviceClass>
        </service>
      </services>
    </xfire>
This file should be placed in your classpath at "META-INF/xfire/services.xml". See the services.xml Reference guide for more information. ## Update your web.xml file You will need to switch from using XFireServlet to the XFireConfigurableServlet which looks for services.xml files on the classpath. Modify your web.xml file to look like so:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

    <!DOCTYPE web-app
        PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
        "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

    <web-app>

      <servlet>
        <servlet-name>XFire</servlet-name>
        <display-name>XFire Servlet</display-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.XFireConfigurableServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>config</param-name>
          <param-value>services.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
      </servlet>

      <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>XFire</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/servlet/XFireServlet/*</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>

      <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>XFire</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>

    </web-app>