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From: Sam Takoy on 20 May 2010 01:46 Hi, I've been tasked with building an application that will consume this web service: http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL I know java and tomcat, but I know nothing about SOAP and WSDL. I hoping that someone will point me in the right direction for approaching this task? Is axis2 the right tool to look at here? Thanks, Sam
From: Mike Schilling on 20 May 2010 02:21 Sam Takoy wrote: > Hi, > > I've been tasked with building an application that will consume this > web service: > > http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL > > I know java and tomcat, but I know nothing about SOAP and WSDL. I > hoping that someone will point me in the right direction for > approaching this task? > Is axis2 the right tool to look at here? There are a number of tools that, given a service's WSDL, will generate a Java client for that service. Axis 2 is one of them. Try reading about its wsdl2java tool.
From: Tom Anderson on 20 May 2010 08:46 On Thu, 20 May 2010, Sam Takoy wrote: > I've been tasked with building an application that will consume this web > service: > > http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL > > I know java and tomcat, but I know nothing about SOAP and WSDL. I hoping that > someone will point me in the right direction for approaching this task? > > Is axis2 the right tool to look at here? It's one of the options. Last time i did this, i used Metro: https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/ Because it's the reference implementation of JAX-WS, and because from the little research i did, it seemed to have better support for the particular WSDL features i needed than Axis2. To use Metro, you apply the wsimport tool to your WSDL file, and it generates a load of code (as source or class files). You put the generated classes and the Metro libraries on your classpath, and you're away. I should warn you, though: i just ran that WSDL through JBoss's WSDL importer, and it rejected it because of a missing import in the schema. You may have to do some hacking of the WSDL file to get it to work right. tom -- OK, mostly because of Tom, but not only because of his bloody irritating character and songs.
From: Arne Vajhøj on 20 May 2010 19:46 On 20-05-2010 01:46, Sam Takoy wrote: > I've been tasked with building an application that will consume this web > service: > > http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL > > I know java and tomcat, but I know nothing about SOAP and WSDL. I hoping > that someone will point me in the right direction for approaching this > task? > > Is axis2 the right tool to look at here? The most important rule for web service beginners are: don't focus on SOAP and WSDL, but let the tools take care of that. Axis2 is one of those tools. wsdl2java -uri http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL will generate a file: src/com/epfr/epfrdata/EPFRDataStub.java which encapsulate the web service call. Arne
From: jaap on 21 May 2010 05:12
Op 20-05-10 14:46, schreef Tom Anderson: > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Sam Takoy wrote: > >> I've been tasked with building an application that will consume this >> web service: >> >> http://epfr.com/epfrdata.asmx?WSDL >> >> I know java and tomcat, but I know nothing about SOAP and WSDL. I >> hoping that someone will point me in the right direction for >> approaching this task? >> >> Is axis2 the right tool to look at here? > > It's one of the options. Last time i did this, i used Metro: > > https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/ > > Because it's the reference implementation of JAX-WS, and because from > the little research i did, it seemed to have better support for the > particular WSDL features i needed than Axis2. > > To use Metro, you apply the wsimport tool to your WSDL file, and it > generates a load of code (as source or class files). You put the > generated classes and the Metro libraries on your classpath, and you're > away. > > I should warn you, though: i just ran that WSDL through JBoss's WSDL > importer, and it rejected it because of a missing import in the schema. > You may have to do some hacking of the WSDL file to get it to work right. > > tom > I know both Axis2 and JAX-WS and I prefer the latter. So follow Tom's advise. The examples are very clear (and easy). Jaap |