I am using Apche Axis2 for a web service client. I know to get the output of a web service. But I want to get the soap Request and response from the wsdl file.
My wsdl is http://localhost:8080/getDetails?wsdl
It would be great if some can share their experiences.
Thanks in Advance.
If you want to use a software for that, use SoapUI.
If you want to do it from Java, you have these options.
Generate the classes for a SOAP Client using wsdl2java command.
There are many ways of doing this depends on the implementation you used.
Generate the classes for a SOAP Client using maven plugin, use this axistools-maven-plugin
After this search for a class having a name "...Locator" and "..PortType", use these classes.
OR,
Search for an Interface which has all the exposed methods and find a way to implement it.
Use SoapUI Tool , provide your WSDL path to this tool , it will load all operations from WSDL once if you click on perticular operation you can get sample SOAP request(XML payloads).
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I'm working on a WSDL application. But actually I didn't understand what makes the "?wsdl" parameter and what will I do with the returned XML. For example:
https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201309/CampaignService?wsdl
This URL returns and XML string but what will I do with this?
I can convert schema files to java classes using jaxb (xjc) but I didn't understand correctly how to use this WSDL?
Thanks for your answers.
WSDL(Web Services Description Language) is just a contract in the form of xml defining the web services. It contains the details of input and output params of webservices. It is used between client and server to define the interface of communication. It is analogous to a method signature in a programming language. But as it is used between hetrogenous systems so xml is used to describe it.
WSDL is a XML file which contains description of a SOAP web service. WSDL file contains details regarding XML request structure, XML response structure, Web service endpoint details, Web service URL etc.WSDL file is the single most important file of a SOAP web service. The owner of a web service provides WSDL file to the client and by using the WSDL file a client interacts with the service. By using the WSDL file a client can generate client side stubs and java classes to contact with the server. Java since its release 7 supports APIs to generate client side code from a WSDL file. WSDL is created at the time of creating the web service.
When you have that URL containing the WSDL,simply use a tool like SOAPUI and generate a SOAP message and invoke web service. Web service can contain one more input elements so in that case you need to provide input element in the SOAP message.
To invoke a web service you just need a WSDL URL , you already have that. Just use a tool like SOAPUI.
WSDL is the file describing your webservices.
Meta Information about your methods, etc.
Any Web Client should understand and use WSDL files to generates all methods needed to communicate with a Web Server.
Our code calls a webservice to fetch some data. But the service provider's service is down most of the time. I have the response xml. Can some one help us with the easiest way to access the hardCoded response xml to our webservice client code. We use Java Axis Webservice. Can i host the webservice on my local machine? I have the wsdl and xsd's . Please help me how to host this service.. Or is there any simple way to access the response xml through axis webservice client..
There are many ways available to create web service from wsdl. If you want to create it manually then you follow these steps
The most easiest way is to use some tools that can generate the webservice for you as Netbeans has a wizard which can create the webservice from wsdl. All methods and neccessary files generates automatically. see Developing Webservices from wsdl using Netbeans
After creating webservice you can host it from your local machine. Netbeans also has the option to run and deploy the webservice.
java -cp %AXISCLASSPATH% org.apache.wsdl.WSDL2Java http://wsdl_url
This will help you to generate the WebService from the WSDL.
Can any one provide me code for consuming webservices via SOAP in java? Actually i am able to consume webservices through HTTP GET and HTTP POST but my requirement is to consume webservices through SOAP.I tried through SOAP but not getting any output. So plz help me to out from this crisis.
Thanks
The WSDL is here:
http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL
You can view my example web service client on github. I use the maven cxf-codegen-plugin (as configured in pom.xml) to generate the client code, which is located here. You can then call the web service operations as demonstrated here.
If you search in google for java soap client example then you will find a lot of java examples of SOAP implementation.
If you have the WSDL of the web service, you can generate a Java client to talk to that service easily with Axis2 CodeGen
I have a wsdl file and a detailed document about all the elements in every request and response from a web-service provider. My job is to compose around 40 requests and parse corresponding responses.
More specifically, our platform submits the requests and gets responses from the service, so for me, as an application developer, I only need to compose soap requests and pass them as String to the platform. I also get response as String from the platform.
I tried StringBuilder, but it looks pretty primitive. It has to be a better way to do it.
Can I put all the requests in an xml document and somehow generate requests from it?
Or even better, is it possible to generate requests from the wsdl file?
Thanks,
Sarah
Have a look at the wsdl2java utilities (there are several versions, one packaged with Axis2, another from IBM, etc.). These can generate client stubs from your WSDL, and should save you a considerable amount of work.
EDIT: Just realized that this may require some additional work since you say your platform submits the requests. The generated code should be attempting to submit strings to the service if that is what's specified by your WSDL, perhaps you can modify the code to pass the strings to your platform?
JAX-WS's wsimport
Client stubs w/ XFire
Axis2's wsdl2java
IBM's wsdl2java
You can use SAAJ API for this purpose.
For more details visit these links:
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnbhg.html
https://saaj.dev.java.net/nonav/spec-1.3/api/
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Courses/TecnologieWeb0708/materiale/laboratorio/guide/j2ee14tutorial7/SAAJ3.html
The simplest way is soap-ws library: https://github.com/reficio/soap-ws
SoapClient client = SoapClient.builder()
.endpointUrl("http://rpc.middleearth.com")
.build();
client.post(envelope);
I need to be able to construct a SOAP request using Apache Axis2 and provide the IP address and user agent in the SOAP header to the webservice. Is there a code sample that describes how to do that?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Best wishes
Ruchi Kaur.
The best way is to get the WSDL of the service you are trying to call, and then use the wsdl2java tool to generate a client for you.
If you want to code it yourself, you can use the Axis2 API...an example can be found at this question.