I am trying to implement a soap ws client in my java application. I have a WSDL file to generate the client stubs. When I implemented the code, I saw that the WSDL file is out of date and I can not get the response as expected in the WSDL. I do not have an option to make the vendor update WSDL.
What are my options to implement the client properly?
Is it possible to fix the WSDL manually or intercept the response before generated codes receive the response?
Thank you.
You can always get the most updated WSDL by accessing the URL from the browser. Since you are able to communicate with the server application I assume you have the server application endpoint.
The URL should be simller to the folliwng
http[s]://(IP or Domain Name)[:port]/.../...?WSDL
Here is an example for a common WSDL online for global weather as an example of how WSDL URL look like
http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL
Additional Details:
You can re-generate the stub classes from WSDL URL directly using many tools like:
Axis
Code Generator Wizard Guide for Eclipse Plug-in
Code Generator Tool Guide for Command Line and Ant Task
Apache CXF
Generate a JAX-WS Web Service Client from a WSDL document using Apache CXF
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I want to use a SOAP webservice with below URL:
http://ws.armaghan.net:8080/ws-relay/MessageRelayService?wsdl
According to post at How to do a call through a javax.xml.ws.Service I developed below code:
URL url= new URL("http://ws.armaghan.net:8080/ws-relay/MessageRelayService?wsdl");
QName qname= new QName("http://webservice.smsrelay.armaghan.net/","MessageRelayService");
Service service = Service.create(url, qname);
but at next step I do not now how to use service.getPort(Claas arg0) because I have not the interface of my SOAP web service. The only thing I have is the above URL.
By the way my question is that how can I use the web-service?
Thanks,
First you need to generate the client for the Web service through WSIMPORT or similar tool.
after that the generated client artifacts should be integrated with your client side code to call web service operations. you can refer following blog post that has the clear steps one by one.
http://chathurangat.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-generate-jax-ws-client-and.html
You should use a tool for generating the interfaces and the client. I usually save the wsdl file to my java project and use the ide to generate source code from the wsdl file.
Then you can choose your preferred framework. Axis, cxf, ws or what you want.
You can also use commandline tools like for example this
http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/jax-ws-wsimport-tool-example/
I have a given WSDL file (a SOAP web service in the internet) and I want to use this service. For that I want to write a Java client, that sends the required datas (as XML) to the web service and the service itself sends an response.
Unfortunately, I am totaly new in web services. This is why I want you to ask for help.
I found a lot of ways to use SOAP in Java. One way is the AXIS2 framework from Apache, another way is the Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP). I've tried both but couldn't get it run..
First of all.. What do I need to use such an SOAP web service?
I think:
- generate Java source out of the WSDL file
- write an client that uses this code
- with this client you can send datas to the web service (the client itself sends the data via XML) and the client can process the response
Am I right or do I have a fallacy?
Thank you for your help!!
I think: - generate Java source out of the WSDL file - write an client that uses this code - with this client you can send datas to the web service (the client itself sends the data via XML) and the client can process the response
That is correct. You can use Axis2 as you mentioned, write a JAX-WS client, you can even write the SOAP message by hand (not that I would recommend that though).
You should try to get a successful call from SoapUI first then write your client application. Use wsimport to get a simple client working (if that's all you need a framework like Axis2 could be overkill).
I wanna create a web service client to send some XML data to other web service. Google for the solution for a while but can’t find the correct answer. Now I suffered problem is how to import the WSDL file or ws-addressing to the workspace (if necessary)?
When I used eclipse built-in method to create a web service client it will automatically create some source code (Tomcat v7.0 Apache Axis2). How to use it to connect to other service and should I fallow the XML schema?
Here is the example below
http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.jst.ws.cxf.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Fcreate_client.html
When I used some source code that I search from internet. The code looks like create a XML by itself. How to I follow the XML schema according to this code?
Here is the example below Working Soap client example
Hopefully someone may give me some clues or more detail information.
Try to use Jaxb & jax-ws which enable to generate and client stub from your WSDL and all XSD dependencies (if reachable). You will have java beans for all objects that will be passed in arguments (ie Jaxb will handle the XML conversion).
you can also refer to this thread: Web service client given WSDL
If you are comfortable using Spring and Maven , find below link which might be useful :
https://spring.io/guides/gs/consuming-web-service/
I wish to consume a SOAP webservice from the Govt. of India public data sets. Here is an sample URL:
http://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Fish_2013.xml
I have been using REST APIs and have never used a SOAP one.This is a SOAP webservice and it does not give me any information about the wsdl file location. As per my understanding I can generate a client using the WSDL if available and use it but how do I use a SOAP API without WSDL.
Most of the other posts talk about changing the response format but then its not possible in my case.
You can do 2 tricks:
install a local webserver
map the localhost/yourproject?wsdl to that xml file
use a Soap client generator tool on that wsdl link ( some allow other links wich doesn't end at wsdl some doesn't)
use the generated artifacts to consume soap.
I wrote a java web service on Netbeans 6.9.1 and deployed on GlassFish 3.0.1
I have a wsdl url like this "http://localhost:8080/web2/service2Service?wsdl".
How can I use this url to access this web service from another java application.
Thanks
You need to generate some Java that represents the client's view of the Web Service and then invoke that Java. Here's an article which explains some of the detail.
Generating client from WSDL in Eclipse
The general idea is that you generate some Java classes from the WSDL. Those classes act as a proxy for the service you want to call. Your java invokes methods on the proxy objects, the generated code creates the appropriate SOAP messages, sends the HTTP request, interprets the response and your code just sees a Java result.
I just use the tooling built into Eclipse, but you will also find other suitable generators, for example in Apache's Axis
1º U must save the content in a "myWebServices.wsdl" file
2º Run your Wsdl converter, all compilers have one of this, normally the name is WDSL.EXE
This process will create a new file with NameSpace or Package with the definitions of webservices built in.
3º Then imports this package or built a library.
Develop web service Client in second application.
You can use Netbeans to create web service client by giving your wsdl url
The document at this url is the actual wsdl (a description of the actual webservice, written in WebService Definfition Language).
The description includes information about the services url, the protocol(s), the method names and and data objects. Your application will use that information to call the remote methods of that service.
The protocol may or may not be SOAP, and without knowing the webservice details, it's quite impossible to recommend a toolset or methodology to use the webservice, there is no general approach. In most cases we see SOAP, for those services I recomment soapUI as a general tool to use and test SOAP based webservices and apache axis to implement java based service consumers.