EC2 and CXF / JAX-WS: Configuring WSDL endpoints & service URL

So, it's been a couple of weeks in real-time and about ten hours in "code"-time since I last posted on EC2 & JAX-WS, since which I've discovered two extra things. The second is in the next blog post.

Firstly, Amazon SQS requires that you make SOAP 1.1 calls to a unique URl per queue. This means that to use a given queue, a specific port has to be configured with the new location in JAX-WS. This took a little digging, but it is clearly mentioned in the CXF documentation. The relevant code is this:

String queueURL = "http://sqs.amazonaws.com/blablabla";

MessageQueue q = new MessageQueue(); //can re-use this apparently

MessageQueuePortType p = q.getMessageQueueHttpsPort(); //this is for a specific queue

//initialise the port to use WS-Security as documented below

BindingProvider provider = (BindingProvider)p;
provider.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, queueURL);

...and that's it.