[CXF-5332] Support spring expression language for jaxws:client address attribute

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.8, 2.6.11
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Daniel Kulp
• Reporter: Mark Anderson
• Created: 11/Oct/13 11:10
• Updated: 26/Nov/13 17:40
• Resolved: 15/Oct/13 18:38

Description

I am using a value from another spring bean as the address for my jaxws:client.

Ideally I would like to use Spring expression language in the address attribute of the jaxws:client tag. e.g.

<jaxws:client address="#{addresses.primaryAddress}" />

but currently CXF tries to lookup a bean with id {addresses.primaryAddress}.

As a workaround I can use a MethodInvokingFactoryBean e.g.

<bean id="primaryAddress" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
  <property name="targetObject" ref="addresses" />
  <property name="targetMethod"><value>getPrimaryAddress</value></property>
</bean>

<jaxws:client address="#primaryAddress" />

but being able to use Spring expression language would be cleaner.