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QuickBooks java SOAP Web Connector structure

i have inherited a java app that integrates with desktop QB. There's something in the structure of this whole setup i'm not understanding. This is my first go with the QB api as a developer.
the QB Web Connector 2.2.0.71 is installed and functional. I see the .qwc file and understand it, and it is loaded into the web connector. There is an Application class that publishes an endpoint to the same URL as in the .qwc file and then starts a class named QBWebService. this web service class implements com.intuit.developer.TroubleshootWebServiceFSSoap and has methods authenticate, sendRequestXML, etc. Method sendRequestXML has the code i am testing and attempting to modify. but, before i can do that i need to understand the XML going back and forth.
since i don't know what i don't know, if i'm asking the wrong questions, by all means, please say so.
is it correct, then, that the web connector (on schedule) launches the application class and calls the sendRequestXML method?
i was expecting to find a URL that i could send XML to with something like SOAPui in order to test the XML and examine the response, but that doesn't seem to be how this web service works. is it possible to set it up this way?
perhaps i don't understand what the QB web connector application is doing. what is the purpose of opening up the URL on localhost if it can't accept XML via POST?
thanks in advance for the help
--matt

is it correct, then, that the web connector (on schedule) launches the application class and calls the sendRequestXML method?
Yes, that's correct.
i was expecting to find a URL that i could send XML to with something like SOAPui in order to test the XML and examine the response
You can send requests to your SOAP service (e.g. you can call the sendRequestXML method for example).
You'll get back an XML response that (if you were the Web Connector) you would then relay to QuickBooks. QuickBooks would process the response, and then call the receiveResponseXML method to send the XML response back up to your web service.
perhaps i don't understand what the QB web connector application is doing.
It sounds like you're expecting QuickBooks to provide a SOAP endpoint, which you can then directly send XML requests to to query data directly from QuickBooks.
This is not really how the Web Connector works. The Web Connector sort of works "backwards".
Instead of connecting directly to QuickBooks, the Web Connector connects to you (your SOAP endpoint) and asks you "Hey, give me something to do!" (i.e. send me the request XML you want to run against QuickBooks). You then give it an XML request, which it runs against QuickBooks, gets the response, and then connects to you again and says "here's what QuickBooks responded to your request with" (i.e. here you go, receive this response XML from QuickBooks).
So the Web Connector essentially polls a SOAP endpoint you provide, asking you to give it XML requests to pass through to QuickBooks.
Longer explanation here:
http://www.consolibyte.com/docs/index.php/QuickBooks_Web_Connector_Overview#About_the_QuickBooks_Web_Connector

Call WebService method created with Netbeans and Glassfish from browser(localhost)

This may sound like a dumb question but i am new to web services.
I followed this tutorial and successfully created a Calculator web service up to the point where i created a local client application that consumed the web service method (A java class with main method which calls the web service method).
My question now is how can i access this method via my browser and set the parameters there, just get an XML/JSON result.
My guess is that i am missing something and i have to publish the web service somehow.
Any solutions, links are highly appreciated.

You have hosted your webservice on glassfish server. Now you want to consume it using internet browser like you did it using test webservice option in net beans.
That means you need to built your own client which runs on web browser.
You need to built a webpage having two input fields in it and a button as result and whenever you hit this button call your webservice and display it's result. You can follow any simple tutorial of web client or application and again you can deployed it on glassfish or apache server.
Also you can use soapui (a client to consume web services) to import your wsdl and access its methods, providing inputs and get result in form of soap.

Spring RestTemplate postForObject call within Rest service

I'm currently working on a Rest-Service that needs to call another Rest-Method provided on the same server. So for example the method on path /myPath/foo needs to request something from the method at path /myPath/restApi/bar
How can I do that with the Spring RestTemplate (or something else) without using a full path in the RestTemplate.postForObject(...) method (full path can't be used, because the url and port of the artifact aren't known when building the artifact).
Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Andy

First of all why are you accessing a REST method on the same server (it looks like it is the same application) using URL instead of calling the service method behind that second URL directly? If this is the same servlet container but multiple WAR files than fine.
Back to your question: you do have the host and port. You are saying that when a client tries to access /myPath/foo then the server should access /myPath/restApi/bar. When you are in a controller/action/handler method/whatever your REST framework provides obtain HttpServletRequest somehow. Having request object you can find out which host and port your client used to connect to your first web service. You can use that information to call the second web service on the same server.
Second thought: if this is the same server, can't you just use localhost?

GWT - Invoke the default 'greetServer' web service from a browser

I'm absolutely new to GWT, java and eclipse, but I'm an experienced MS programmer.
I installed eclipse and GWT and created a default project (called it test2) with pre-built sample gwt code. It comes with one java web service on the backend called 'GreetingService' which has a single web method called 'greetServer' that takes a single parameter called 'input'. I tried to invoke it in the web browser with many different combinations, but with no success (my project name is called 'test2):
http://127.0.0.1:8888/test2/greetServer?input=hello
http://127.0.0.1:8888/greetServer?input=hello
http://127.0.0.1:8888/test2/greetingService/greetServer?input=hello
http://127.0.0.1:8888/test2/greetingService?input=hello
etc
but I get http error 404 not found.
My question is, how can I invoke the web service from a browser and see the return data? I know this can be done easily with WCF or asmx web services but I'm not familiar with java web services.
Thanks a bunch!

The GWT Remote Service Servlet only uses HTTP Post. If you want to see the data (which will be encoded by gwt anyway) use could use firebug and take a look at the traffic.

The greeting service isn't intended to be a web service. It's a demo of GWT's remote procedure call (RPC) facility over AJAX. As with most RPC frameworks, the server side is only intended to be called from the generated client stub.

How to make a Webservice request follow a redirect?

My application neeeds to access a third part web service.
Of late, they have introduced a load balancer, which redirects to the server.
Because of this the webservice gets a 302 - Redirect error as response.
In the SOAPUI, I was able to enable a property called "Follow Redirect", and because of this service followed the redirect and served by the server.
Now is there a similar propety that can be turned on in the code, which would make the webservice follow the request?
(The calling code is java and the webservice is in .net)

This needs to be supported by the library implementing the actual call to the web service, and there is not a generic way of setting this.