Web App Integration

Note: The following only applies to Enunciate 1.x. Enunciate 2 no longer generates deployment descriptors nor builds the WAR (see the Migration Guide)

Web App Integration

You can have your own J2EE web application sit alongside the Enunciate-generated Web service application. The only issue is that you have to "merge" the web.xml file that Enunciate generates with your own web.xml file.

Fortunately, Enunciate provides a way to automatically merge your web.xml file into the Enunciate-generated one:

<enunciate ...>
 ...
 <modules>
   <spring-app mergeWebXML="/path/to/my/web.xml"/>
   ...
 </modules>
</enunciate>

Element Order

By default during a merge, Enunciate puts the elements of your web.xml file before the elements that are generated by Enunciate. But sometimes order is significant (e.g. listeners, servlets, filters, etc.).

As of Enunciate 1.29, you can tell Enunciate to put the elements after the generated elements, you can add a custom attribute to the web.xml element, e.g.:

<web-app>
 ...
 <filter enunciate_order="after">
   ...
 </filter>
 ...
 <listener enunciate_order="after">
   ...
 </listener>
 ...
 <servlet enunciate_order="after">
   ...
 </servlet>
 ...
</web-app>