Changing WSDL url ( endpoint) in JAX-WS client

In JDeveloper 11G you can easily generate a JAX-WS client, just create a new Web Service proxy client and use the WSDL Url. This client works perfectly in your test environment but when you want to deploy this to an other environment then you will get IO errors. This is because JDeveloper generates JAX-WS client code with a WSDL Url.Off course you can change this file with the new WSDL Url but you can also change the endpoint url. IMPORTANT this only works when the original WSDL Url is still accessible. So don't use this.

    @WebServiceRef
    private static HelloWorldService helloWorldService;

    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
      String newAddress = System.getProperty("wsdlurl");
      helloWorldService = new HelloWorldService();
      HelloWorld helloWorld = helloWorldService.getHelloWorldPort();
      System.out.println("old address "+((BindingProvider)helloWorld).getRequestContext().get(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY));
      ((BindingProvider)helloWorld).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY ,  newAddress);

      System.out.println(helloWorld.sayHello());  

The other and better way is to use the other proxy client constructor and provide the new WDSL url.

    @WebServiceRef
    private static HelloWorldService helloWorldService;

    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
      String newAddress = System.getProperty("wsdlurl");
      try {
            helloWorldService = new HelloWorldService( new URL(newAddress)
                                                     , new QName("http://ws.whitehorses.nl/", "HelloWorldService"));
      } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
      }
      HelloWorld helloWorld = helloWorldService.getHelloWorldPort();
      System.out.println(helloWorld.sayHello());  
    }

The last way ( if you use the jax-ws-client in a web application) is to add a jax-ws-catalog.xml file to the ear deployment of your web application, this will replace the WSDL url at runtime.
the file looks like this. See Gerard Devision blog for more information.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog" prefer="system">
  <system systemId="http://localhost:7101/ws_helloworld-Project1-context-root/HelloWorldServicePort?wsdl"
          uri="http://localhost:7001/ws_helloworld/HelloWorldServicePort?WSDL"/> 
</catalog>