Celtix Enterprise includes a Spring container that is a customized version of the Spring framework. The Spring framework is a general purpose environment for deploying and running Java applications. For more information on the framework, see www.springframework.org. This document explains how to deploy and manage Celtix Web service endpoints to the Spring container.

Figure 1.1, “Exposing a Celtix Web Service Endpoint from the Spring Container” illustrates how you expose a Celtix Web service endpoint from the Celtix Spring container.

Essentially, you deploy a WAR file to the Spring container. The WAR file contains all of the files that the Spring container needs to run your application, including the WSDL file that defines your service, the code that you generated from that WSDL file, including the implementation file, any libraries that your application needs and any number of XML-based bean definition files that configure your application.

The example code used in this document is taken from the Spring container sample application located in the following directory of your Celtix installation:

InstallDir/samples/spring_container/hello_world

For information on how to run this sample, refer to the README.txt file in that directory.