[[WS-Discovery]]
= WS-Discovery

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Apache CXF includes support for _Web Services Dynamic Discovery_ (
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-dd/discovery/1.1/os/wsdd-discovery-1.1-spec-os.html[WS-Discovery]),
which is a protocol to enable dynamic discovery of services available on
the local network. The protocol implies using a `UDP` based multicast
transport to announce new services and probe for existing services. A
managed mode where a discovery proxy is used to reduce the amount of
required multicast traffic is also covered by the protocol.

JBossWS integrates the _WS-Discovery_
http://cxf.apache.org/docs/ws-discovery.html[functionalities] provided
by Apache CXF into the application server.

[[enabling-ws-discovery]]
== Enabling WS-Discovery

Apache CXF enables _WS-Discovery_ depending on the availability of its
runtime component; given that's always shipped in the application
server, JBossWS integration requires using the
`cxf.ws-discovery.enabled`
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/Advanced+User+Guide#AdvancedUserGuide-Configurationthroughdeploymentdescriptor[property]
usage for enabling _WS-Discovery_ for a given deployment. By default
_WS-Discovery_ is disabled on the application server. Below is an
example of _jboss-webservices.xml_ descriptor to be used for enabling
_WS-Discovery_:

[source,xml,options="nowrap"]
----
<webservices xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  version="1.2" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee">
 
  <property>
    <name>cxf.ws-discovery.enabled</name>
    <value>true</value>
  </property>
 
</webservices>
----

By default, a _WS-Discovery_ service endpoint (SOAP-over-UDP bound) will
be started the first time a WS-Discovery enabled deployment is processed
on the application server. Every ws endpoint belonging to _WS-Discovery_
enabled deployments will be automatically registered into such a
_WS-Discovery_ service endpoint ( `Hello` messages). The service will
reply to `Probe` and `Resolve` messages received on `UDP` port `3702`
(including multicast messages sent to `IPv4` address `239.255.255.250`,
as per
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-dd/discovery/1.1/os/wsdd-discovery-1.1-spec-os.html#_Toc234231816[specification]).
Endpoints will eventually be automatically unregistered using `Bye`
messages upon undeployment.

[[probing-services]]
== Probing services

Apache CXF comes with a _WS-Discovery_ API that can be used to probe /
resolve services. When running in-container, a JBoss module
<<JAX_WS_JBoss_Modules_and_WS_applications,dependency>> to the `org.apache.cxf.impl` module is to
be set to have access to _WS-Discovery_ client functionalities.

The
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cxf/tags/cxf-2.7.5/services/ws-discovery/ws-discovery-api/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/ws/discovery/WSDiscoveryClient.java?revision=1481139&view=markup[org.apache.cxf.ws.discovery.WSDiscoveryClient]
class provides the _probe_ and _resolve_ methods which also accepts
filters on scopes. Users can rely on them for locating available
endpoints on the network. Please have a look at the JBossWS testsuite
which includes a
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossws/stack/cxf/tags/jbossws-cxf-4.2.0.Beta1/modules/testsuite/cxf-tests/src/test/java/org/jboss/test/ws/jaxws/samples/wsdd/WSDiscoveryTestCase.java[sample]
on CXF WS-Discovery usage.
