Invoking WebServices using Axis2 SMS Transport

In a previous blog I have explained the overview design of the Axis2 SMS Transport. Since Last week Axis2 Transport team announced Axis2 Transport 1.0 release in which SMS transport got released. I think its time to give some examples on how to use the SMS transport.

SMS Transport currently have two SMS implementations

1. SMPP protocol implementation

2. GSM implementation

where SMPP protocol implementation allow you to connect the axis2 to a SMSC and get messages form it. And GSM implementation allow you to connect a simple GSM modem to the computer that Axis2 is running and use that to send receive SMS form Axis2( its recommended not to use GSM implementation when your message traffic is higher than 6msgs per min).

SMS Transport allow Axis2 users to do following

1. Invoke a in only Web Service operation using a SMS

2. Invoke a in out Web service operation and receive a reply

3. Use Axis2 client and send messages out as a SMS

In this blog I 'll discuss how to use SMS Transport to invoke a simple a Web Service using a RPC type SMS via GSM implementation

Environment :

OS: Ubuntu 9.04

JDK : 1.6.0

Axis2 Version : 1.5.1

Modem : Huawei E220

Following are the Steps that need to be taken

1. Add Runtime Libs to Axis2 to Start with SMS Transport

2. Configure Axis2

3. Deploy our Simple service

4. Start Axis2

5. invoke service using a SMS.

Adding Runtime libs

add following file to the Axis2-HOME/lib directory

• axis2-transport-sms-1.0.0.jar

• axis2-transport-base-1.0.0.jar

• smslib-3.4.1.jar

• mail-1.4.jar

Now we need to add Java communication API libs needed for the SMS lib

go to jre home and goto lib/ext/ directory and add following files

• comm.jar

• libLinuxSerialParallel.so

• libLinuxSerialParallel_g.so

Now we are Axis2 two is ready to start with Axis2 .

Configuring Axis2

Goto Axis2-HOME/conf folder where you find the axis2.xml file which is the configuration file used for Axis2 configuration.

Then add following to the Transport section.

SMS Transport Receiver configuration

<transportreceiver name="sms" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.sms.SMSMessageReciever">
<parameter name="smsImplClass">org.apache.axis2.transport.sms.gsm.GSMImplManager</parameter>
<parameter name="com_port">/dev/ttyUSB0</parameter>
<parameter name="gateway_id">modem.ttyUSB0</parameter>
<parameter name="baud_rate">115200</parameter>
<parameter name="manufacturer">HUAWEI</parameter>
<parameter name="model">E220</parameter>
</transportreceiver>

SMS Transport Sender configuration

<transportsender name="sms" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.sms.SMSSender">
<parameter name="smsImplClass">org.apache.axis2.transport.sms.gsm.GSMImplManager</parameter>
<parameter name="com_port">/dev/ttyUSB0</parameter>
<parameter name="gateway_id">modem.ttyUSB0</parameter>
<parameter name="baud_rate">115200</parameter>
<parameter name="manufacturer">HUAWEI</parameter>
<parameter name="model">E220</parameter>
</transportsender>

Now Axis2 is ready. Now lets write a Simple Axis2 Service

Deploy Axis2 Service

Following is the Sample POJO Axis2 Service Class I wrote to demonstrate this

package sample.sms.test;



public class SampleInOutService {


public String sayHello(String name) {

 return "Hello " + name;
}


}

Make a service archive of this POJO class and put that in the Axis2-HOME/repository/services directory.

Start Axis2

Then Start Axis2 by going to Axis2-HOME/bin and executing the shell script axis2server.sh.

If every thing goes ok you will see a log like this at the end

[INFO] Version: 3.4.1

[INFO] JRE Version: 1.6.0_06

[INFO] JRE Impl Version: 10.0-b22

[INFO] O/S: Linux / i386 / 2.6.28-14-generic

[INFO] GTW: modem.ttyUSB0: Starting gateway, using Generic AT Handler.

[INFO] GTW: modem.ttyUSB0: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0 @115200

[INFO] GTW: modem.ttyUSB0: GSM: Registered to home network.

[INFO] GTW: modem.ttyUSB0: MEM: Storage Locations Found: SM

[INFO] GTW: modem.ttyUSB0: Gateway started.

[Axis2] Started in Port :/dev/ttyUSB0

[INFO] [SimpleAxisServer] Started

Now we are done now we can invoke the sayHello operation by sending a SMS message to the modem

following is the SMS

SampleInOutService:sayHello:name=charith

send that SMS to the modems phone number and you will get a SMS saying Hello charith

You can use SMS Transport Mixing implementations. ex : send messages using SMPP and recive via GSM modem.

This Transport will be useful when your going to implement your EDA (Event driven architecture) since users will be able to generate events and/or get notifications of events via SMSs

More details of SMS Transport can be found at SMS Transport documentation