Additional Metadata
Sometimes a finer grained control of endpoints for a specific service a client gets when retrieving the endpoints is needed. For this purpose you can define additional metadata for an endpoint, such as the country for which the endpoint is only valid or the bandwith it provides. The client on the other side may define the metadata it requires from the endpoint from which a service call is to be made.
Service Locator enabled endpoint with additional metadata
<reference id="locatorFeature" interface="org.talend.esb.servicelocator.cxf.LocatorFeature"/>
<jaxws:endpoint xmlns:tns="http://talend.org/esb/examples/" id="greeter"
implementor="demo.service.GreeterImpl"
serviceName="tns:GreeterService" address="/GreeterService">
<jaxws:properties>
<entry key="esb.locator.properties">
<map>
<entry key="country" value="Luxembourg, Belgium"/>
<entry key="bandwith" value="Class A"/>
</map>
</entry>
</jaxws:properties>
<jaxws:features>
<ref component-id="locatorFeature"/>
</jaxws:features>
</jaxws:endpoint>In the example above, the endpoint provides a metadata entry for country with the values Luxembourg and Belgium and an entry for bandwith with value Class A.
Service Locator enabled client with additional metadata requirements
<reference id="locatorFeature" interface="org.talend.esb.servicelocator.cxf.LocatorFeature"/>
<jaxws:client xmlns:tns="http://talend.org/esb/examples/" id="GreeterClient"
serviceName="tns:GreeterService" address="locator://">
<jaxws:properties>
<entry key="esb.locator.properties">
<map>
<entry key="country" value="Belgium"/>
</map>
</entry>
</jaxws:properties>
<jaxws:features>
<ref component-id="locatorFeature"/>
</jaxws:features>
</jaxws:client>In the example above, the client requires the endpoint to have a metadata entry for country that at least includes Belgium as value.