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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

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.

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.

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

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

On 21-05-2010 05:12, jaap wrote:
> I know both Axis2 and JAX-WS and I prefer the latter.

So you know that JAX-WS is a standard and Axis2 is software
that implements the JAX-WS standard?



Arne